The book of Deuteronomy teaches once again that repentance and the fear of God are the gateway to redemptive epistemology. Moses, Joshua, and Caleb knew that heeding or not heeding God’s voice meant life or death, flourishing or privation, knowledge or folly. They understood that the source of everything that happened to them and all they aspired to was God. Indeed, he was the bond that held their world together and the presupposition of their worldview. For them, nothing was truly secular and no other ideology could be syncretized with the Lord’s revelation. They acknowledged the covenantal imperative to listen diligently to his voice alone, since there was no justification for intellectual disloyalty. (Such a Mind as This, p. 257)