Capturing the Pagan Mind

by Peter Jones

Publisher:

B&H

, 2003

Overview

Jones helps us see that Paul’s teaching is still relevant for today’s culture. The Apostle also confronted a culture much like ours—sports-mad, deep into Eastern spirituality, religious syncretism—where society was overrun by sexual deviancy. Paul was able to minister to people in this type of culture and his words ring true for us today. Paul was able to reach the people in his time for Christ, and he can teach us the rules of engagement in ours.

Contents

Top Highlights

“I call Rome ‘the Beast’ because the early church described the Roman Empire that way—as ‘the Beast and the Prostitute.’” (Page x)

“the true church finds itself marginalized in a global culture that is progressively more pagan” (Page xi)

“Hellenistic Western culture throughout the known world, an achievement hailed as one of the great events of human history. Historians contend that his ‘appearance forms a turning point in the history of the race,’ an event greater than the Renaissance or the Reformation.¹ He is believed to be ‘the inaugurator of that comprehensive cosmopolitanism … (a unified world) … that reached its apogee in the Roman Empire … his [great] aim was to accomplish ‘the marriage of the East and the West.’” (Page 4)

“autonomous human power and man-made religion as social and spiritual ruin.” (Page x)

Product Details

• Title: Capturing the Pagan Mind
• Author: Peter Jones
• Publisher: Broadman and Holman
• Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 318

About Peter Jones

Peter Jones is Executive Director of Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (a national and international teaching, preaching and writing ministry) and scholar in residence at Westminster Seminary, in California. He received a B.A. from the University of Wales; a B.D. from Gordon Divinity School; a Th.M. from Harvard Divinity School; and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He taught Greek and New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and was Professor of New Testament at Westminster Seminary California from 1991 to 2003. He is the author of The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back.