Essence of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality through the Biblical StoryClear eyed and foundational, Roger Olson's The Essentials of Christian Thought outlines the most basic, necessary principles of a Christian outlook on the worldprinciples without which no thinking can properly be viewed as Christian. Christians disagree on doctrine, politics, church government, certain moral questionsjust about everything under the sun, it can seem. Yet a unity remains, centered around a core outlook on God and the world that is