The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life is my attempt to wrestle through the issues of the relationship between the Christian faith and the intellectual life. It is centered in an observation and a question. The observation: wherever the cross is planted the academy follows. The question: why?
I am essentially arguing that there is an inextricable link between the Christian faith and the intellectual life. When the gospel takes hold in a culture, it inevitably leads to intellectual inquiry, the quest for truth, and a robust intellectual life. If this is true, we should expect that when the gospel loses sway in a culture there is an increased confusion about the possibility of knowledge, and about the importance or even possibility of a viable intellectual life. The Gospel and the Mind is currently available for pre-order at amazon, as well as at the publisher's (Crossway) web page.