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What holds Christian thought together—and what does the church lose when any one pillar is removed?

In this conversation, Drs. Kevin Vanhoozer, Dennis Greeson, and Gregory Parker Jr. examine the three pillars at the heart of The Alexandrian Institute: Scripture as the root, theology as the trunk, and culture as the branches. Drawing on the European theological encyclopedia and the Reformed tradition of retrieval, they explore what it means to be genuinely Christianly literate—biblically grounded, doctrinally formed, and culturally engaged — and why each discipline depends on the others.

00:00 Introduction — The Three Pillars of TAI
00:58 Scripture, Theology, and Culture: How They Integrate
01:45 The Theological Encyclopedia: Bavinck's Tree
02:29 What Do We Lose If We Remove a Pillar?
04:00 Retrieval: Looking Back to Go Forward
04:55 The Virtue of Gratitude and the Danger of Nostalgia
07:10 How Should We Discourse with the Great Tradition?
08:20 Learning to Read Charitably Before Reading Critically
08:48 Critical vs. Formative Reading: Looking At and Looking Along
11:45 Why TAI Is a Global Institution

This is the headline conversation in TAI's Three Pillars series.

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