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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The winner of the protestant reformation as of today was not Luther or Calvin but rather Cervetus byo his protege Descartes. It was Descartes who created the tree of knowledge and universities disciplines mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and on to the social sciences. The trunk of Descartes tree of knowledge is philosophy. The roots of the tree of knowledge were metaphysics. Theology was packed into a subbranch with witchcraft.

All the great universities of the west have shown their philosophy students Descartes tree of knowledge for 300 years —and screwed them up.. Sadly, theology never belonged in the tree of knowledge because theology is God centered. Philosophy is man centered. Theology begins in God and is top down. Philosophy begins in man and is bottoms up. In theology —God is the measure of all things. In philosophy man is the measure of all thing.

btw Cervetus believed in the low view of Christ. He was burned at the stake by John Calvin. Likely Calvin knew his Catholic history and knew that followers of the Arian heresy tended to side with the Muslims. As such, they represented not just a theological threat to christianity but an existential threat to the west.

This was important because only two decades before— the Muslim Turks had laid siege to Vienna.


22 posted on 01/01/2020 1:49:41 PM PST by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

Descartes is the Father of modern philosophy. If anything he provided a basis for healthy skpeticism.


27 posted on 04/12/2020 8:47:44 PM PDT by Borges
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