Think. The Life of the Mind and the Love of God (2010), by John Piper, is a book which challenges Christians to use their minds. "My goal is to encourage you to make serious thinking an important part of the way you pursue the knowledge of God." In the book Piper opposes prideful intellectualism, Christian anti-intellectualism, and the poison that is relativism.
Relativism, the philosophy that there is no universal external standard for judging the truth or falsehood of any statement, is seen by many Christians as a cancer on the world. Piper goes further, he declares relativism to be evil (2 Timothy 4:3-4) and a treason against God. Piper attacks the relativist philosophy, showing its gaping logical inconsistencies and exposes it for what it really is, a glorification of the self in opposition to God, which is what all sin ultimately reduces to.
Pastor Piper is no kinder to Christian anti-intellectualism. One subchapter heading is Not Thinking Is No Solution for Thinking Arrogantly. "I we abandon thinking, we abandon the Bible, and if we abandon the Bible we abandon God." Rather than being suspicious of deep thinking, we need to learn a humble way of thinking deeply.
"... the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things. He created the world so that through it and above it we might treasure him."
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