Additional Conflict 4: Forgiveness that Christ practices and teaches is said to be irreconcilable with demands of justice

Additional Conflict 5: Incompatibilities with duties of life in society

Additional Conflict 6: Exaltation of lowly offends aristocrats

Additional Conflict 7: Unavailability of Christ’s wisdom to the wise and prudent….bewilder philosophical leaders of culture or excite their scorn

Believers found it difficult to combine his claims upon them with those of their societies.
Paul’s struggles…Judaizers and Hellenizers but also in his translation
It appears in many forms as well as in all ages as the problem of reason and revelation, religion and science, natural and divine law, state and church, nonresistance and coercion Relations of Protestantism & capitalism, Pietism and nationalism, Puritanism and democracy, Catholicism & Romanism or Anglicanism of Christianity and progress
Poles of Christ and culture…relation of these two authorities constitutes its problem
“when deals with question of reason and revelation, what is ultimately in question is the relation of the revelation in Christ to the reason which prevails in culture