In this talk, Paul Gutacker explores a question: is study just for some Christians, or for all? He diagnoses several ways in which contemporary understandings of learning and education have unhelpfully constrained our imaginations. Then, drawing on St. Augustine and several modern theologians, he presents an alternative account of study to our modern obsession with utility and technique. In this vision, theological study is a way of loving God with all our minds, and thus properly the work of amateurs rather than professionals.