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the spirit that he has at his foundation one from God? Oswald Chambers tells the story of a fellow who said he would only read the Bible and books associated directly with it. Chambers told him, “My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight. When people refer to a man as a ‘man of one book,’ meaning the Bible, he is generally found to be a man of multitudinous books, which simply isolates the one Book to its proper grandeur. The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.” 12 One of my favorite authors is Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He wrote, “Get to know everything so that if you meet a godless man or a man with evil intentions, you can answer him properly, and his wicked and pious words will not befall your young mind.” 13 That’s what we want to be about here at Cedarville University: thinking deeply and broadly about life in the world. It’s exciting. I hope you will join with us in this endeavor. Endnotes 1 Shakespeare, W. (1963). Macbeth (H.H. Furness Jr., Ed.). New York: Dover Publications. 2 The secret of life. Lyricscafe [Online]. Available: http://www.lyricscafe.com/ h/hill_faith/thesecretoflife.html. 3 Sartre, J.P. (1956). Being and nothingness. New York: Philosophical Library. 4 Calaprice, A. (Ed.). (1996). The quotable Einstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 5 Re: Brain Cramps. EGreeley [Online]. Available: http://www.egreeley.com/ messages/1382.html. 6 Ibid. 7 Carroll, L. (1999). Alice’s adventures in wonderland. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. 8 Kraft, C.H. (1979). Christianity in culture. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis. 9 Cited in B.J. Walsh and J.R. Middleton, The transforming vision (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984). 10 Wright, R.T. (1989). Biology through the eyes of faith. San Francisco: Harper & Row. 11 Bozell, L.B., III. (2001, Oct. 30). Gere, Stone behind the curve. Media Research Center [Online]. Available: http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/enter tainmentcolumn/2001/col20011030.asp. 12 Of Master Paul and polymaths. (1999, Summer). Iron Filings , 1(9). 13 Dostoyevsky, F. (2003). The adolescent. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Spring 2004 / TORCH 15 D r. William E. Brown became president of Cedarville University in June 2003, following a ten-year presidency at Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn. A graduate of the University of South Florida, Brown holds a master of theology degree and Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. As a nationally-recognized expert in worldview, he has authored three books (Making Sense of Your Faith; Where Have All the Dreamers Gone?: Observations from a Biblical Worldview; and Making Sense of Your World with Gary Phillips) and more than a hundred articles for journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and newspapers. Brown and his wife, Lynne, are the parents of April and Alex. T