Abstract
In the Christian world the Church is the mother of academe; and the formal pursuit of knowledge began as an instrument for understanding what already stood revealed. The first doctors were the doctors of the church, and their high calling knew nothing of the diseases of the body, but only the glory of the Eternal. The great universities of antiquity were all established with one initial concern: to interpret the faith as the faith had been revealed. To make it clear; to make it relevant; and to make it accessible.