In the thread Do we know the year of Christ's Return @JohnDB said in part this
I begin thinking after my response that intellectual Christianity is pretty much nonexistence anymore. We had the giants like JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in days gone by but none I see none with some exceptions like NT Wright who I do think is on the level of Lewis and Tolkien.
Now I use to be an evangelical in the days of the past and you all know I gave that up. When I was in the Christian movement of evangelicalism I knew of no great Christian intellect, maybe AW Tozer but I literally never heard of him till recently and he was in the same generation as Lewis, Tolkien and the others. I can not place my finger upon any modern Christian intellect in the evangelical movement.
I know from my time in the evangelical movement that intellectual Christianity or anything was quite looked down upon. Even the movies are not that much into real deep thinking that have been produced so all this has me wondering, since this is primarily an evangelical board I thought maybe you all would know the answer to my question which is:
Are there any modern intellectual Christianity in the Christian evangelical movement?
Well I can get into a discussion on Pelagius/Augustine/Calvin disparities and similarities....
Or Syncretism of the Persian Empire in the Roman Empire and subsequently Judaism but who is going to be able to keep up?
I begin thinking after my response that intellectual Christianity is pretty much nonexistence anymore. We had the giants like JRR Tolkien and C.S. Lewis in days gone by but none I see none with some exceptions like NT Wright who I do think is on the level of Lewis and Tolkien.
Now I use to be an evangelical in the days of the past and you all know I gave that up. When I was in the Christian movement of evangelicalism I knew of no great Christian intellect, maybe AW Tozer but I literally never heard of him till recently and he was in the same generation as Lewis, Tolkien and the others. I can not place my finger upon any modern Christian intellect in the evangelical movement.
I know from my time in the evangelical movement that intellectual Christianity or anything was quite looked down upon. Even the movies are not that much into real deep thinking that have been produced so all this has me wondering, since this is primarily an evangelical board I thought maybe you all would know the answer to my question which is:
Are there any modern intellectual Christianity in the Christian evangelical movement?