The whole intellectual climate — one lives in a specific intellectual environment. (bombmagazine.org)
Perhaps, John Cobb, Jr.'s burgeoning awareness of this more elusive world contributed to his «distress about the dominant intellectual climate of the contemporary world in general and its institutionalization in the university in particular» (RR (religion-online.org)
His impact — not only on philosophy and theology but on a wide variety of disciplines — has been so great that one can not understand the current intellectual climate without at least some understanding of him. (religion-online.org)