Let’s now move to the New Testament, where the chief message is the fulfillment of salvation history in the coming of Christ. In Jaki’s mind, the Christian doctrine that comes from belief in God becoming man in the person of Jesus Christ was pivotal in casting off the intellectual baggage that prevented science as a self-sustaining enterprise from developing in Greece, or for that matter anywhere else. And there is more to the story than just Jesus’ words that all authority in …
