Academia & Ecclesia

Here are links to some impressive issues of  Enrichment Journal  (a quarterly ministry journal for Pentecostal and Charismatic ministers, especially Assemblies of God ministers): On Science and Religion http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201204/index.cfm http://faithandscience.ag.org/ On Politics and Religion http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201002/index.cfm It appears to me that the Assemblies of God has been distancing itself from fundamentalist evangelicalism. I personally consider that as an admirable sensitivity to where the Spirit is leading the Church.

What is the relationship between intelligence and religiosity? Are intelligent people generally non-religious? Do religious people generally lack analytic intelligence? Some researches seem to suggest that intelligent people are generally non-religious and religious people generally lack analytic intelligence. Here’s a link to a report about this issue: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/new-meta-analysis-checks-the-correlation-between-intelligence-and-faith/ Here’s a link to an abstract of a scholarly paper about this issue: http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/08/02/1088868313497266 I don’t find the suggestions of such researches surprising. They seem to support the general suspicions of many philosophers. As a matter of fact, St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 1: 18 – 31 seems to even have the same suspicions about the relationship between intelligence and religiosity. For Paul, God called the ignoramuses of this world to shame the wise. I think that these findings can