minds and souls of the past, and thereby ripening and sharpening and enlarging their powers of thinking. The result is that the arena of creative thinking is abdicated to the enemy. … For the sake of greater effectiveness in witnessing to Jesus Christ Himself, as well as for [your] own sakes, … Evangelicals cannot afford to keep on living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence.8 Second is the principle of a theocentric focus. We should come to the task of our studies with a sense