“Scandal of the Evangelical Mind”

Simply attending a Christian college does not do the work of applying Noll’s “life of the mind” concept. Noll says, “An evangelical life of the mind is the effort to think like a Christian – to think within a specifically Christian framework – across the whole spectrum of modern learning.” The individual alone is responsible for thinking as a Christian in whatever vocation or field he or she goes into. The university is not required to teach in such a way that every student learns how to use their mind for Christ. It may be the faculty’s goal or hope, but it is the individual’s choice what and how they learn while in college, even a Christian college. While a Christian education may help one learn how to think well in a Christian framework, one does not automatically fulfill the requirements of an “evangelical life of the mind” by attending a Christian college. Perhaps the assumption that it does has led to the “scandal of the evangelical mind” of which Noll speaks.

Questions:

1). How does the idea of an evangelical life of the mind connect to the concept of creation, fall, redemption.

2). How can one practice redemption of the evangelical mind in everyday life?