Quotes from David S. Dockery

In his 1986 autobiographical work, Confessions of a Theologian, Carl F. H. Henry, dean of twentieth-century American evangelical theologians, lamented that several Christian colleges and universities had started to veer away from the centrality of their work, by and large giving up the cognitive focus on Christian thought in favor of Christian piety and activism.

C. Barber's Nehemiah and the Dynamics of Effective Leadership

Since the time of Justin, the dialogue between faith and reason, between faith and culture, has reflected two essential characteristics of the Christian intellectual heritage: (1) faith seeks understanding; and (2) intellectual inquiry invites a response of faith.

The great thinkers of the early church wrote numerous commentaries on the creation story in Genesis 1–3, more so than any other part of the Bible, because they understood that it contradicted the fundamental beliefs of their inherited pagan culture and challenged them to replace it with something that was true to reality.

the gospel, the Christian faith, becomes the interpretive framework with which to make sense of all other knowledge and experience.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God, but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin but for God's wrath on it.

For all eternity the redeemed of the Lord will worship the Triune God supremely without impurity. We will enjoy fellowship with him without conflict. We will serve the living God forever and ever.

Ultimately, unbroken fellowship with God through the Lamb of God provides the central feature of the eternal state.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.