‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? – or how secular intellectuals are rescuing the Church’.

May 6, 2022 by

by Gavin Ashenden:

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem” fulminated Tertullian? At the time Tertullian was sounding off about the tendency to place rationalism and Greek philosophical criteria ahead of the integrity of revelation in the life of the Church.

Times have changed however. The secular intellectuals of our day have recently come to the aid of a demoralized Church. Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray in particular have tried to reset the relationship between faith and the secular mind.

Over the last few years the Church has had the stuffing knocked out of her. The culture wars are just the latest bruising round. Douglas Murray’s latest book, ‘the War on the West ‘sets out to document what’s been going on and why.

This is not intended to be a normal book review, (no doubt that will follow) but rather an overview of the analysis that secular Intellectuals have provided rot fill the vacuum of Christian resistance. The intellectual rigour of Athens has come to the rescue of demoralised Jerusalem.

To set the scene, Douglas Murray has collected together some of the most mind-boggling examples of the mass psychosis that has overtaken our culture. In detailing them with such ruthless clarity he raises the question of why our society has capitulated so easily and so completely to the woke assault.

He gives a few recent anecdotes which show how powerful the mass woke psychosis has become.

These episodes make the Salem witch trials look almost sane by comparison.

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see also

Douglas Murray’s defence of the West, by Noel Yaxley, The Article

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