For years I been hounding in ‘the public square’ about the failure of the apologetics industry which needs to be scrapped. And by apologetics industry I mean unreformed organisational humanism as much as I mean unreformed evangelicalism for the 21st century. It is time to act.
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Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics Part 4. Back to genuine faith and reason
https://www.academia.edu/164487500/Why_the_Disciplines_and_No_Apologetics_Part_4_Back_to_genuine_faith_and_reason
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This essay explains why the Apologetic Industry is no longer relevant and what has to happen to replace what is ultimately a propaganda machine.
Buch had published a three-part series of “Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics”, this essay is Part 4 of the series. This final instalment synthesizes a meta-critique of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems with the contemporary manifestation of the American Revivalist Tradition (ART) within the “Trumpocene.” By applying the historiographical rigor of Marc Bloch, the essay argues for the necessary dissolution of the “Apologetics Industry”—viewed as a regressive rhetorical technology—and the return of faith-based inquiry into the open, rigorous discourses of the academic disciplines. Finally, the essay utilizes Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the “non-human in the human” to resolve the tension between humanism and the divine, providing a balanced, naturalistic framework for human flourishing that avoids the pitfalls of supernaturalism and technocratic reductionism.
Ultimately, the goal of moving beyond the bubble of apologetics is to achieve “accurate compatibility” through an interdisciplinary culture-cognition framework. The disciplines provide the necessary “intellectual immune system” to detect specialized ignorance and widely-believed falsehoods that have historically hampered human flourishing. By treating “understanding history as philosophy in practice,” scholars can move past “scissors-and-paste” chronicling toward a synoptic vision that integrates Self, Mind, Reason, Utility, and Love into a singular project of Aristotelian flourishing. Part 4 concludes that only through the rigorous rejection of dogmatic certainty and an openness to Socratic questioning can a truly Contributory Economy be constructed in a secular age.
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