Advice to Christian philosophers
My aim, in this talk, is to give
some advice to philosophers who are Christians. My counsel can be summed up
on two connected suggestions, along with a codicil. First, Christian philosophers
and Christian intellectuals generally must display more autonomy--more independence
of the rest of philosophical world. Second, Christian philosophers must display
more integrity--integrity in the sense of integral wholeness, or oneness, or
unity, being all of one piece. Perhaps ‘integrality’ would be the better word
here. And necessary to these two is a third: Christian courage, or boldness,
or strength, or perhaps Christian self-confidence. We Christian philosophers
must display more faith, more trust in the Lord; we must put on the whole armor
of God.