first to clear-eyed grasp of God’s truth, and, second, to keen-eyed skepticism about fallen alternatives. Paul had obviously learned a great deal from his culture. But he did not learn the living, systematic truth he proclaimed from those sterile and deviant substitutes. And the truth he proclaimed radically reworked those substitutes.2 The Bible itself models these primary, secondary, and tertiary priorities. What then are the needs of our time and place regarding the modern