Some think that academic study makes you arrogant. That can be true, I suppose, just as it can be true of everyone. But looking back now on 40 years in academia, I will say that I’ve learned my limitations precisely through academic study. Everything I've studied, everything I've thought of, everything I've done, reminds me of what I began sensing in those early years: The study of God is inexhaustible, for we are limited on all sides. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (1 Cor 13:12). I am seeing this a bit more clearly now, not despite my academic work but because of it.