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The New Testament and Intellectual Humility, EPUB eBook

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This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities.

It is informed by recent interdisciplinary interest in intellectual humility, and concerned to appreciate the distinctive representations of the virtue offered by the New Testament writers on their own terms.

It argues that the intellectual virtue is cast as a particular expression of the broader Christian virtue of humility, something whichitself proceeds from the believer's union with Christ, through which personal identity is reconstituted by the operation of the Holy Spirit.

This demands that we speak of 'virtue' in ways determined by the acting presence of Jesus Christ that overcomes sin and evil in human lives and in the world. The Christian account of the intellectual virtue of humility is framed by this conflict, as the minds of believers who live together within the Christian community struggle with natural arrogance and selfishness, and come to share in the mind of Christ.

The new identity that emerges creates a fresh openness to truth, as the capacity of the sinful mind to distort truth is exposed and challenged.

This affects not just knowledge and perception, but also volition: for these ancient writers, ahumble mind makes good decisions that reflect judgements decisively shaped by the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ. By presenting 'humility of mind' as a characteristic of the One who is worshipped—Jesus Christ—the New Testament writers insist that we acknowledge the virtue not just as an admission ofhuman deficiency or limitation, but as a positive affirmation of our rightful place within the divine economy.

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