Daily Archives: 13th June 2020

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature (Part 6)

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 6). Religion creates its own Frankenstein monster. The critical search via reason for universal laws of nature. Dr. Ray Scott Percival   In his book The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark conjectures that it was the Christian emphasis on a law-like structure to the world…

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas. James I: Witness of, and channel for the Dawn Ages (Part 5).

The Clash of Swords and the Clash of Ideas (Part 5) James I: Witness of, and channel for the Dawn Ages.  Dr. Ray Scott Percival   St. Augustine’s optimistic attitude to progress illustrates the current view among historians that although, stained in dogmatism and oppression, the so-called dark ages were not that dark.(Grant 2004, Hannan…