Comments on: enlightened on the enlightenment https://oxgoad.ca/2012/08/29/enlightened-on-the-enlightenment/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2012/08/29/enlightened-on-the-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-24961 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:59:02 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/?p=2045#comment-24961 In reply to Fred Moritz.

Yeah, he was the king of feeling, no doubt about it.

What struck me is that I had been laboring under the mistaken notion that modernism was rational, “Reason is king.” I thought that it was post-modernism that brought in this wave of emotion. PM may have changed some aspects of this, but this observation made me sit up and take notice: Individualism and the “Age of Reason” are charged with emotion. We’ve lived under this for a long time.

That is not to disparage emotionalism entirely, I suppose. But we must recognize that it is a big part of what drives modernism, “rationalism”, science, etc. It probably drives us a good deal as well, we’ve been raised to think this way. Or should I say, “feel this way”?

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Fred Moritz https://oxgoad.ca/2012/08/29/enlightened-on-the-enlightenment/comment-page-1/#comment-24960 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:49:14 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/?p=2045#comment-24960 And Friederich Schleiermacher, the father of theological liberalism is a textbook example. He taught that the essence of religion is feeling, more exactly a feeling of dependence on God.

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