...Christopher was an heir of the Enlightenment tradition, and would have felt right at home in the 18th-century salons of Paris. He wanted to carry on the grand tradition of doubting what had been inherited from Christendom, and to take great delight in doubting it. This worked well, or appeared to, for a time. But skepticism is a universal solvent, and once applied, it does not stop just because Christendom is gone. "I think, therefore I am. I think." We pulled out the stopper of faith, and the bathwater of reason appeared undisturbed for a time. But modernism slowly receded and now postmodernism is circling the drain. Our intelligentsia needs to figure out how to do more than sit in an empty tub and reminisce about the days when Voltaire knew how to keep the water hot.
Douglas Wilson in Christianity Today | posted 12/16/2011 12:00AM
Tis a brilliant description. I've noticed, for example, the gay marriage "debate" floundering about ridiculously because (to simplify greatly and make my point quickly) there is no reference to something externally ultimate, or anything true beyond what people
feel is right.
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