What commenced in Locke gained momentum throughout the modern period. One thinks of the move in the nineteenth century, so abhorred by John Henry Newman, to exclude religion from the circle of academic disciplines on the presumption that religion had to do with private and subjective matters.

In the evangelical subcultures I had inhabited, the general disposition towards sources of knowledge and wisdom outside of the boundaries of our doctrinal fences was one of suspicion, if not complete derision and distrust. But this was not the disposition of some of the earliest orthodox Christian voices, nor has it been the perspective of some of