The Necessity of Inquiry into the Christian Faith in the Proper Spirit

September 6th, 2006 | 1 min read

A commenter on Mere-O pointed out that the intellectual Jews skeptically asked Jesus “who is my neighbor?” to get out of the problem of dealing with what they already knew to be true about the Gospel. This came in response to a post I made pointing readers to Dr. Sanders’ comments on Middlebrow about the “simplicity” of the Christian faith. My reply immediately follows:

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.