In Chapter 5, Wiley began the second half of her book, which focused on the last 500 years.<\/p>\n
Remember that terms \u201cRenaissance\u201d, \u201cEnlightenment\u201d and \u201cModernity\u201d are labels in an anthropocentric<\/em> rather than a theocentric<\/em> symbolic order, will these labels change in the future.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n Each of these periods mark an increasing erasure of the prior Latin Age, with its theocentric symbols, its feudal power structures, and its Biblical and Augustinian imagination.\u00a0 Allow me to give a series of idiosyncratic snapshots:<\/p>\n In the Renaissance, \u201ckingdoms\u201d replaced feudal arrangements, the Church fissured into the Catholics and the Protestants, and wealth from trade began to enrich Europe. \u00a0\u00a0This was the time of the Council of Trent.<\/p>\n In the Renaissance, people began to imagine<\/em> a world different from the static world of \u201csociety as body\u201d.\u00a0 This is seen in the new art of perspective and illusion.\u00a0 At this time, most everyone still believed that Genesis portrayed literal events, but some skeptics imagined that these stories could be mythological.\u00a0 \u00a0Theology was in the air.<\/p>\n In the Enlightenment, people began to symbolize<\/em> images from the Renaissance plus the new situation of nation states plus the new situation of scientific discoveries. The Story of Adam and Eve was no longer regarded as literally true.\u00a0 Skepticism gave way to the deification of Reason.\u00a0 Religion was regarded as irrational.\u00a0 The Genesis text was irrational.\u00a0 Yet, the findings of the Council of Trent remained like a fortress.\u00a0 Theology was in retreat.<\/p>\n In Modernity, people began to construct<\/em> societies based on the symbols of the Enlightenment.\u00a0 The great Religions of Reason were born: Communism (International Socialism based on the Reasoning of Marx); Fascism (National Socialism based on the Reasoning of \u2026 um \u2026 Marx); and later, Progressivism (Incremental Socialism \u2026 need I say the Reasoning?).\u00a0\u00a0 In the European colonies, the great Religions of Resistance were also born.<\/p>\n These Religions of Reason and Resistancewere formulated through – what I call -\u201ccryptotheologies\u201d.\u00a0 Cryptotheologies claim that they are not \u201creligious\u201d, because they speak of \u201cNo Supernatural Being\u201d.\u00a0 Yet, their central claim is: By faith (in Reason) alone, you shall live.<\/p>\n The Religions of Reason and Resistance claimed the victories of Science as their own.<\/p>\n One of those victories was a new theory of origins: evolution.\u00a0 The Evolutionary Sciences appeared to show that the Stories of the Fall were not historically true.\u00a0 Genesis was mere fable.\u00a0 There is no connection between these stories and the Real.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the languages of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, Sociology and Psychology cannot admit God or anything Religious into their symbolic orders.\u00a0 This provided more fodder for the cryptotheologies of Reason and Resistance.<\/p>\n The Story of the Fall is bogus.\u00a0 Original Sin is irrelevant.\u00a0 Long live Reason and Resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Chapter 5, Wiley began the second half of her book, which focused on the last 500 years. Remember that terms \u201cRenaissance\u201d, \u201cEnlightenment\u201d and \u201cModernity\u201d are labels in an anthropocentric rather than a theocentric symbolic order, will these labels change in the future.\u00a0 Who knows? Each of these periods mark an increasing erasure of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n