We're living in the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Christianity.

And again, what I mean by that is not anti-academic, not anti-scientific, not anti-technological,

but anti-intellect. The scripture offers evidence.

The scripture offers the testimony of history, the testimony of the senses and the sight.

The scripture do not ask us to crucify our minds and do not ask us to believe in an unwarranted

assumption.

But rather, Christianity is a faith that is credible.

That is, it is believable because it makes sense and because it is verified through the testimony of history.

Now, that's very important because people in our day want to divorce their religious life

from their scientific life or their otherwise intellectual pursuits, as if to say religion is something strictly of the heart

and does not engage the mind. I understand how popular that idea is, but church history and the

scriptures themselves bear witness that Christianity certainly involves the commitment of the heart

and certainly involves the movement of the will and all of those things.

But whatever else it is, it is also profoundly intellectual.

That is to say, the Word of God is addressed first to the mind. And nothing can be in the

heart or in the will that is not first in the mind. You can't respond with love and adoration,

for example, or devotion to nothing or to a mental

blankness.

You have to have some idea of the object of your adoration, some idea in your mind of what

it is you believe in and who it is you are following.

And so insofar as faith has content and the only way content can be processed is by the mind,

then Christianity at that point is profoundly intellectual.

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