No new heresies

The current rash of anti-intellectualism in our Evangelical churches is nothing new:
"Formerly the prejudice against a man having a book was very great. In my own case, even in 1812, I lost as many customers as paid me for the goods they had to the amount of 500 pounds a year, on a gentleman discovering that I had a roomful of books."
Francis Place, Parliamentary Papers, 1835. (Quoted in Jacques Barzun, The House of Intellect. 1959)
For a contemporary take on this issue, don't miss David Wells, No Place For Truth (The first of four volumes in his series that attempts, largely successfully, to help us make sense of Post-modernism and the Church).