The Longing
Stuff that didn't quite make it into The Briefing
Developing the Christian mind: An interview with Dr JP Moreland
Peter Hastie / January 2003
In your book, Love Your God With All Your Mind, you criticize contemporary Western culture for being anti-intellectual and image-dominated. This is a fairly serious charge. What do you mean by it?
In the modern world knowledge is the basis for responsible action and culture. It's on the basis of knowledge that we give dentists, for example, the right to put their hands in our mouths but we don't give lawyers permission to do it. So it's on the basis of knowledge that we allow people to act in certain ways in the public arena. If there is a