Spengler goes deep
Spengler reviews The Closing of the Muslim Mind
"Danish philosopher, theologian and psychologist Soren Kierkegaard distinguished between two kinds of thinking: objective knowledge (the way a doctor reads a dark spot on a patient's chest x-ray) and existential knowledge (the way the patient thinks about the dark spot on the chest x-ray). The doctor analyzes the spot with scientific detachment; not so the patient who is told that she has only months to live.
Our knowledge of God is existential, not objective (excepting of prophets who have direct communication with God, of whom none has walked the Earth since ancient times). The Catholic natural theology that Francisco Suarez taught during the Counter-Reformation claimed an objective knowledge of God, but has few defenders today. We do not recite the long-discredited proofs of God's existence, but stand in fear and trembling before our mortality and enter a faith community that promises to help us to defeat death."
Read on.
"Danish philosopher, theologian and psychologist Soren Kierkegaard distinguished between two kinds of thinking: objective knowledge (the way a doctor reads a dark spot on a patient's chest x-ray) and existential knowledge (the way the patient thinks about the dark spot on the chest x-ray). The doctor analyzes the spot with scientific detachment; not so the patient who is told that she has only months to live.
Our knowledge of God is existential, not objective (excepting of prophets who have direct communication with God, of whom none has walked the Earth since ancient times). The Catholic natural theology that Francisco Suarez taught during the Counter-Reformation claimed an objective knowledge of God, but has few defenders today. We do not recite the long-discredited proofs of God's existence, but stand in fear and trembling before our mortality and enter a faith community that promises to help us to defeat death."
Read on.
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