“Feelings of personal
anxiety and the revival of melancholia in civilized society today bear their
own empirical evidence that two centuries of philosophy have been unable to
vindicate, as does revealed religion, the meaning and worth of human survival.
Philosophy may bear the honorific name of love of wisdom, but love has turned
out for unregenerate man to be a category as elusive as wisdom. The loss of
Christian compass-bearings has detoured contemporary man to the swamplands of
uncertainty about truth, the good, and the enduring significance of his
personal aspirations and strivings to anyone but himself. His earlier
confidence in personal immortality has meanwhile collapsed into wistful longing
for an immortality of influence, and this seems less and less feasible in a day
when human creativity and individuality require only that each do his own thing…If
mankind is going to recover a firm and clear conviction of transcendent truth
and good, and of the ongoing value of human existence, it is neither human
observation nor secular philosophizing but divine revelation alone that holds
the key of life.” – Carl F.H. Henry, God, Revelation, and Authority, Volume I: God Who Speaks and Shows (Preliminary Considerations), p. 193
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