Sacred Scientism draws upon Aristotle
and the use of his philosophical method by various Catholic theologians,
notably Saint Anselm and Saint Thomas Aquinas. Their approach is
captured in the phrase "fides
quaerens intellectum"—“faith seeking understanding.” For Earthfolk,
this expresses not only a mental discipline but an emotional state.
For the Sacred Scientism advocate feels that God
is in control of the world.
The world is part of the Kingdom
of God. True to the biblical revelations within
the Abrahamic Big Story, humans are fallen creatures
and life on Earth is a miserable existence, consequently,
God’s judgment is to be feared. Yet, inside that fear is a
deep hope that all is right with the world—and would be—if
only humans could better understood God’s mysterious
ways. This optimism is grounded in God’s
mysteriousness. It is not an optimism, however,
which vanquishes an Abrahamic’s spiritual fear and dread.
The consolation for Sacred Scientism is that there
is a Divine Design.
One that can be known through the human intellect for it is an Intelligent Design.
This is accompanied by the concept of Divine Providence which
states that God has a Grand Plan for humanity, even
though the individual or even the Church may not see it clearly.
(All are
part of a "Salvation
History.")
In this tradition, to gaze upon Nature—with
a hoe or a microscope or the Hubble telescope or a Bubble Chamber—is
to see endlessly amazing displays of God’s
unfathomable Wisdom and Beauty. As such, Nature is
simply ever amazing—ever revealing more
and more of the divine mystery. (Such a sentiment flowed through
the
theology of America's foremost Calvinist and Puritan theologian
Jonathan Edwards.)
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