understanding of some virtues and vices seems roughly to coincide.4 Scores of injunctions to pursue intellectual virtues dot the pages of Scripture. We are urged to be attentive, wise, discerning, prudent, circumspect, understanding, teachable, lovers of truth, intellectually humble and intellectually tenacious, along with many other positive intellectual traits. We are also directed to be able to defend our faith, to instruct others in the faith, to confute those who oppose true doctrine, and so
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