The primary focus and function of Justin's book is his personal journey, not
detailed biblical exegesis, so his analysis here is brief but dense.
Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright
details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the
biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that
exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..