David Grubbs moderates a conversation with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about intellectuals within the Church, some of the ways that intellectuals have related to the Church, and some suggestions about how intellectuals might relate to the Church. We take on the advantages and the drawbacks of the monk, the hermit, and the philosopher-king models along the way, and Gilmour manages to alienate church-planters one more time. Among the texts, authors, and ideas discussed are Plato, Milton, Emerson, Pope Gregory the Great, John Calvin, church planting, and congregational life.
