It will regard highly the long-standing convictions of the church in history. It will move hesitantly to assert some new interpretation of its own. It will be, in short, a Biblical mind, well stored with the understandings of God's people down through the ages, and well grounded in the Biblical account of God's redemptive invasion of a lost world in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. Again, a Christian mind is one that is unapologetically, consciously rooted in faith in Jesus Christ. The relation of faith to knowledge is so misunderstood today that it is worth digressing momentarily to touch on it.
All knowledge is rooted in faith of one sort or another.
To talk, therefore, of the integration of faith and learning as though that were something we do to two otherwise discrete activities, is to misunderstand the nature of both faith and learning. Humans, made in God's image, are bounded by their very creation to fix on some focus of faith in terms of which they understand their world and everything in it. There are always people's facts, and people all live by some faith or other. It is one of the deepest spells which modernity has cast on us. And it is one that is diametrically opposite to the way things really are.