Prof. Nicholas Wolterstorff has reviewed Mark Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind. I have also reviewed the same book. However, (and I know this will come as a big surprise to many) Prof. Wolterstorff's review is better. Wolterstorff has been writing about the issue surrounding scholarship and the intellectual life for a while. In Reason within in the Bounds of Religion he writes:
The Christian who is a scholar finds himself in two communities: the community of his fellow Christians and the community of his fellow scholars. Each has its own criteria for membership, its own characteristic practices, its own characteristic beliefs, its own characteristic training programs. Without a doubt a person can simply live in the two different communities ... But if one who is a scholar as well as a Christian wants coherence in life - or even if he only wants self-understanding - he cannot help asking, how does my membership in these two communities fit together? (p. 21)
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