Guest PostThe Christian intellectual tradition is alive and well By Jacob Lupfer September 5, 2016ShareShare on TwitterShare on FacebookEmail to a friendPrint c. 2016 Religion News Service (RNS) In 1947 and 1948, respectively, Christian scholars C.S. Lewis and Reinhold Niebuhr appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Since then, commentators have bemoaned the disappearance of the Christian intellectual.