g wisdom, prudence, understanding, and love of truth--or in other words, for intellectual virtue. Intellectual virtues are supplanted by moral virtues but determine how good people are at being cognitive agents. Intellectual life, meanwhile, is important as an index of character (Wood, 1998, p. 17), and success as cognitive agent linked to moral and emotional health. For the Christian intellectual virtue involves the idea that how one thinks is as important as what is thought. This brings in the idea of the life of the mind, with which the Bible, as an account of moral experience, is concerned. Moral virtue does not just come naturally but requires training and practice, just as intellectual virtue does. The two, indeed, are intertwined, owing something to Western tradition in general and Christian tradition in particular
Background belief, not just the weight of evidence, is the measure of truth. This suggests that one must constantly ask why: Why is one person believed more than another? What predisposes one to set store by beau
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