This chapter is my contribution to Shaping a Christian Worldview, edited by David S. Dockery and Gregory Alan Thornbury (Broadman and Holman, 2002).  In this chapter I outline what are--on my understanding--the connections between the Christian faith and the intellectual life.  In many ways my forthcoming book, Understanding and the Cross (Crossway, 2010), is an elaboration and explication of the themes of this chapter.