"In Augustine's view, the incentive for so much le…

“In Augustine’s view, the incentive for so much learning is not then by any means mere mastery of knowledge for its own sake; such ambition “puffs up” the mind and makes it an object of idolatrous worship. What prompts earnest and excellent scholarship in the Christian is “fear of the Lord”. – from James Sire’s Habits of the Mind which quoted David Lyle Jeffrey’s The People of the Book