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What Became of the Christian Intellectuals? A Conversation with Professor Alan Jacobs

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Alternative Narrative of the Christian Intellectuals

I recognize their experiment in terms of that larger cultural influence really got snuffed out at the start because it didn't matter if they had a PhD from Boston University or Harvard or Yale. They still weren't of the of the class that was going to be welcome into the conversation even in the 1950s. And I do think that for Henry, as much as Henry, for instance, Carl Henry, wanted to be able to speak to that larger society, his more pressing concern was a loss of theological integrity within the evangelical camp. That's where most of his energies went, not all of them. But let's make sure that we're doing doing our part.

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