What is going unmentioned here is the very event that has necessitated a re-enchantment in the contemporary world --
The ersatz Enlightenment with its sterile Rationalism!
The whole contemporary world has been infected with this Rationalism, including traditionalist Catholicism. It grounds the way that we are structured as societies and even the way that we think and behave. Further, it forms a mental barrier that blocks off a mystical and medieval grasp of Reality, a barrier whose removal is an arduous, life-time struggle for us moderns. Even the supposed post-moderns who verbally reject Rationalism still arrive right back at a Rationalist framing of the universe.
Msgr. Williamson referred to the Enlightenment as the Endarkening.
As for knowing from Scripture and Tradition alone, that falls right into the very fissure of Faith and Reason brought about by the so-called Enlightenment. The Via Naturalis (Reason/Philosophy) is not opposed to the Via Supernaturalis (Faith/Theology). These are two different ways of arriving at Truth. They are complimentary, not antagonistic as Modernity views them to be. The Via Naturalis is subordinate to the Via Supernaturalis, of course. The starting points are different as too the questions that these learning approaches ask. Nevertheless, their sought ends are identical -- the Good, the True, and the Beautiful -- and, ultimately the Greatest Good, namely, God.
This is what is being lost here in trying to form an apologetic for a re-enchantment, i.e., mystical approach to understand reality.
An Oxfordian who gets that "even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of"
Topic: Occult Subversion of Traditional Catholicism (Read 1481 times)