Five stars! This book is for you if you want to love and serve God with all your mind, and if you value critical thinking as part of spiritual growth.

It focuses on the recent trend of anti-intellectualism in the church and offers suggestions to recapture the life of the Christian mind, both for spiritual growth and for Christian witness.
Important to note is that from Puritan times to the middle of the nineteenth century, American believers highly valued the intellectual life. The great American revivals of the nineteenth century, however, “overemphasized immediate personal conversions to Christ rather than a studied period of reflection and conviction,” and in turn gave rise to anti-intellectualism.

It is this studied period of reflection and conviction and its continuation in the life of each Christian that Moreland wants to recapture.

Perhaps most importantly, Moreland addresses what a mature Christian mind looks like and the effect a mature Christian mind has on evangelism, stating that “apologetics is the primary form through which the Christian mind expresses itself in the task of evangelism.”