Thank you for the excellent overview.

Terrific and quite succinct overview of Western philosophical development. Thank you for posting…

a beautiful thing about falsehood is that it is inevitably noticed at some point :D

With all due respect skepticism also needs to apply to the absolutist idea that that truth cannot arise from divine revelation. My experience tells me that it can. How else would you have found out that you should not covet?

I enjoyed the Freudian slip when you said revelation instead of revolution. Contrary to what you said here, revelation and spiritual knowledge is not the domain of a select few mystics, but the heritage of every true believer who has received the Holy Spirit. When the Church loses its vitality it becomes a tyranny of dogma, but in the Normal Christian Life the human being is alive in Spirit and able to discern truth by reason and by revelation, both by the Spirit and by the Mind, both of which have been provided to us by our creator. To downplay the role of the Spirit because of the dogmatism of the institutional church which could not by revelation assimilate the progress of science is unfair. This mistake of rejecting the higher level leads to the inability of modern philosophers to provide meaning and morality to our existence. Reason is wonderful, and God given, but Revelation is able to manage it. Ask the Lord to fill you with His Holy Spirit and you will discover this other necessary dimension. As you go on in the modern era you juxtapose all the errors of the hierarchy of an unbiblical church against the modern philosopher, without realizing that real Christianity never did teach, for example, that sex or making money is only to be practiced with a burden of guilt. That is simply wrong teaching, and cannot be ascribed either to Christianity or dualism. The whole point about dualism is that we live fully in both realms... Jesus was fully man and fully God..he lived for the improvement of the present world and for the glory of eternity. You cannot diminish the Christian faith by pointing at false representations of Christianity. The regression happened by rejecting the revelation of the Holy Spirit and by doing this the modernists paved the way for post-modernism. Postmodernists have the integrity to follow through on this with devastating consequences. Another point i want to make is that the modernists were still riding on the fumes of the previous generation and had a Christian morality and set of values which had been received by revelation. The fumes ran out and post-modernism was the product. This is a phenomenon quite apparent today when listening to atheists like Richard Dawkins pushing Christian morality without acknowledging how he managed to acquire it.(by revelation to his forebears)

If I were a woman I would have a crush on Stephen. But I am not a postie.