Faith And Enlightenment : A Response To James Doull
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In his essay, "Faith and Enlightenment," James Doull makes a case for the view that the faith of the Protestant Reformation and the "pure insight" of Enlightenment are but "two opposed forms of the same totality." Despite the often deadly hostility of Enlightenment to traditional religious belief, the form of consciousness which arose alternately with Lutheranism in the sixteenth century and with Cartesianism in the seventeenth is in reality one and the same: at the centre of both is the concrete relation of the individual rational soul to the truth, which is grasped as such in thought. The logic of Enlightenment, on this view, is none other than the inner moving principle of Protestant faith, while the inner principle of Protestant faith itself leads inevitably to Enlightenment.
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