The Primacy of the Intellect?
One can never think that he is getting into a deeper level of interpretation when he gets at the instincts of man than when he deals with the intellect of man. There are, from the Christian point of view, no higher and lower levels of existence…. The ineffable, the inexpressible, the “groanings which cannot be uttered” are not any more valuable in the sight of God than the self-consciously expressed praise of God.
Christian psychology does not place the intellect ahead of any other aspect of man’s personality in the sense that one should be more truly human than another. Man is equally prophet, priest and king. All that Reformed theology has meant by emphasizing the priority of the intellect is that it is only through intellectual interpretation that we can communicate with one another about the meaning of reality — Cornelius Van Til, Psychology of Religion, 49, 67.