(July 8, 2022 at 10:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Wow, you really read a lot more meaning into that passage than I did. I just took it to be an elaborate way of saying that rehashing those demonstrations are beyond the scope of his book, which to me, isn't all that different from starting some demstration with a given that is widely accepted by the audience. Maybe, since you do not share his given, maybe you are not his audience.
Could be. I would say the passage suggests that the given is the truth of Christianity via revelation, and if that is the case it is certainly true that I do not share the given. It seems rather broad to be a given, actually, but then, as you say, I may not then be the audience. The question then would be who the audience would be - those who already believe? That's not me being rhetorical or intentionally rude, I'm just thinking about it.
