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Abraham Kuyper in Common Grace, Volume 2:

Christ is not unique as one thinker among others. The knowledge we have from him is not owing to any research he performed Jesus has no scientific writings that immortalize his name among us. No school put him on the honor roll for the splendor of his wisdom. Rather, understood in the normal sense of the word, Christ was an illiterate among the unlearned, one man among the rest, a rabbi among the masses, a teacher to the humble. Measured according to standard criteria for erudition and scholarship, Christ would not even count among the scholars Every attempt to evaluate his significance for science in this way must therefore be decidedly rejected. Those who list Christ’s holy name alongside Confucius, Socrates, Plato, or Augustine underestimate him altogether, deny his unique position, and veil his kingly majesty also in the sphere of science.