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Theology's Blind Turn? A Response to Rausch and @AmericaMag

Theology's Blind Turn? A Response to Rausch and @AmericaMag from @mtjofmcap -

By Matt Janeczko, OFM Cap.

In an article written for America Magainzes’s most recent edition, titled “Theology’s New Turn”, Thomas Rausch explores the phenomenon wherein “Disciplines once considered marginal now dominate the academy.” Rausch identifies this experience as stemming from his task of reviewing job applications at his academic institution. Less than a year removed from formal…

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All at once a little circumstance revolutionized this sterile field in which nothing grew. One day a savant proposed, before concluding, to experiment. He abandoned supposed truths, he returned to first causes, to the study of bodies, the observation of facts. Like a schoolboy he consented to become humble, to learn to spell nature before reading it fluently.

Émile Zola (speaking on science), "Naturalism on the Stage" [trans. Belle M. Sherman, as published in Bernard Dukore's Dramatic Theory and Criticism]

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