Reflecting on the intellectual life of the Church

... the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.... Despite dynamic success at a popular level, modern American evangelicals have failed notably in sustaining serious intellectual life. They have nourished millions of believers in the simple verities of the gospel but have largely abandoned the universities, the arts and other realms of "high" culture.... The historical situation is ... curious. Modern evangelicals are the spiritual descendants of leaders and movements distinguished by probing, creative, fruitful attention to the mind.

-- Mark Noll (quoted by J.P. Moreland in Kingdom Triangle)