tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post788127383473112714..comments2023-06-24T01:15:34.627-07:00Comments on The Skeptic Zone: im-skepticalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-64250357773532529772017-11-29T08:21:08.374-08:002017-11-29T08:21:08.374-08:00Here is an article about Augustine on the topic of...Here is an article about <a href="https://strangenotions.com/augustine-faith/" rel="nofollow">Augustine on the topic of faith and reason</a>. This is from a Christian perspective, by the way. Note that it invokes Feser and Gilson to take the apologeitc view, softening the views of Augustine to conform more closely with their apologetic standards.<br /><br />An excerpt:<br /><i>The contrast between reading Scripture before and after faith is one Augustine returned to often, for it demonstrated how reason, for all of its goodness and worth, can only comprehend a certain circumscribed amount. While reason is a wonderful and even powerful tool, it is a natural tool providing limited results.</i>im-skepticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-9888681956166645022017-11-29T08:00:23.767-08:002017-11-29T08:00:23.767-08:00But what if the whole thing went askew at some poi...But what if the whole thing went askew at some point? Then 'real ordinary Christians' - even if there are such people, which is dubious - have got it wrong, no? <br /><br />Further, what if that happened quite early? It could have occurred as early as the fourth century. What if, therefore, the very institution you cite as authority was first conceived and Intended by Constatine and his cronies as a vehicle of accommodation and usurpation to appropriate the emerging Xian trend into the Roman Empire? (Empires have, after all, learned to do that over the centuries, until today, it's nearly impossible to have a revolutionary idea whose symbols aren't on sale on Amazon by morning as neoliberal capitalism has become so skillful at such appropriations. And that strategy is much more efficient than having to oppressively kill and/or jail and/or torture a lot of people, right?) <br /><br />Some modern theologians (as opposed to "apologists" which not the same thing) think along these lines: that the early essence of Xianity was obscured by historical drift at some point or other. (Including Tillich in the article I linked you, btw, in which he claims the (Augustinian) concept of faith and reason as inseparable went askew around the time of Aquinas....) <br /><br />A good book on this kinda socio-religio topic is "God & Power" by the theologian Catherine Keller.Mike Gerowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630695728013930638noreply@blogger.com