The evangelical emperor has not intellectual clothes. Such was historian Mark Noll’s argument in his 1995 book “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.” While the notion that evangelicals are just plain dumb is a both a generalization and a canard, it is correct that the movement has not always been intellectually rigorous.
Noll’s book jostled the evangelical movement. They forced evangelical colleges to reevaluate their pedagogical rigor, spawned the creation of Books and Culture magazine, and pushed many Christian intellectuals to the fore. One such thinker was Nancy Pearcey.
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