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Hutchins and Adler made a major contribution for the perennialists when they undertook the editing of the massive collection entitled Great Books of the Western World. That collection consists of about one hundred of the works of the West
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“We live in cultures and go to churches enveloped in dense, epistemic fog. To change the metaphor, it’s an epistemological jungle out there. Truth and knowing it have become the paramount issues of our times. All too often, however, we confuse good and evil, light and darkness, or, metaphorically, the bitter and the sweet (Isa. 5:20–21). We profess intelligence and wisdom, but we’re idiots (Rom. 1:22). Either the media serves as our basic epistemology or we subscribe, willy-nilly, to an atheistic or naturalistic worldview with its evolutionary development of the human person without recognizing the epistemic implications.”
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“Direct, face-to-face communication with God was the original epistemic arrangement.”
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“Naturalism could, in fact, render naturalism itself irrational, as Alvin Plantinga argues, and as C. S. Lewis thought. Plantinga devotes chapter 12 of his work Warrant and Proper Function to this point.7 He writes in one place that “if metaphysical naturalism and this evolutionary account are both true, then our cognitive faculties will have resulted from blind mechanisms like natural selection. . . . Evolution is interested, not in true belief, but in survival or fitness. It is therefore unlikely that our cognitive faculties have the production of true belief as a proximate or any other function, and the probability of our faculties being reliable (given naturalistic evolution) would be fairly low.”8 If, then, naturalism negates knowing, then theism fosters it. Our native human capacity to know, Plantinga claims, “flourishes best in the context of supernaturalism in metaphysics.”9 I agree. So did C. S. Lewis.10 From this, we see why God must underwrite a credible epistemology.”
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