Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry: Thinking as Pilgrimage

America has entered a new intellectual era in which personal identity is assumed to play a significant role in how every person thinks.Today's academy acknowledges that who we are shapes how we view ourselves and the world, which unavoidably injects religion, spirituality, secularity, and faith-a person's deepest convictions, commitment, hopes, fears, and loyalties-into the thinking process.The new emphasis on individual identity has made academic methodologies broader and more multifaceted, enlarging the pursuit of truth but sometimes leading to unsupported and false claims about reality. Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry focuses specifically on how American Christians are trying to negotiate this new terrain.The first section of the book recounts the long, complex, and diverse history of Christian reflection on the connections between faith and learning.The second section analyses the past 150 years of American thinking, tracing the changing intellectual paradigms that governed h