Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Millions of young Christ-followers began their university journey this month.  How will they fare with regard to their worldview and overall approach to life?  Statistics are rather grim.  I’ll leave those for another post sometime, but for now, here are a few thoughts from University of Southern California professor of philosophy Dallas Willard (The Divine Conspiracy, 331) about discerning the present-day thought environment:

“To understand why the negative prejudice [with regard to the claim that God is Creator and Sustainer of all] is so strong now, just reflect on how the entire system of human expertise, as represented by our many-tiered structure of certification and accreditation, has a tremendous vested interest in ruling God out of consideration.  For, if it cannot do that, it is simply wrong about what it presents as knowledge and reality–of which God is no part….God currently forms no part of recognized human competence in any field of knowledge or practice.  But if this actually is God’s universe, the current lords of knowledge have made what is surely the greatest mistake in human history.  Believing the world is flat or the moon is cheese would be nothing in comparison to their mistake.”