Foreword / Mark A. Noll -- Introduction -- Clarifying the aim of the book -- My pilgrimage -- Deep help from a dead friend -- Clarifying the meaning of thinking -- Reading as thinking -- Coming to faith through thinking -- Mental adultery is no escape -- Rational gospel, spiritual light -- Clarifying the meaning of loving God -- Love for God: treasuring God with all your mind -- Jesus meets the relativists -- Immorality of relativism -- Facing the challenge of anti-intellectualism -- Unhelpful anti-intellectual impulses in our history -- You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding -- In the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom -- Finding a humble way of knowing -- Knowledge that loves -- Scholarship for the love of God and man -- Encouraging thinkers and non-thinkers -- Conclusion: a final plea -- Appendix 1 "The earth is the Lord's": The supremacy of Christ in Christian learning (Biblical foundations for Bethlehem College and Seminary -- Appendix 2 Student, the fish, and Agassiz -- Acknowledgements -- General index -- Scripture index -- Desiring God: note on resources.