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The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind

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This book explores for contemporary academics the challenge posed a quarter of a century earlier by Charles Malik: recapturing the great universities for Jesus Christ can and must be done through scholars who live out an integrated focus on the two tasks of saving the soul and the mind.

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