The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis

our design: but what he added is very pernicious In 17th-century context, "pernicious" implies something that is not just harmful, but spiritually or morally corrupting.. I want to make you understand this clearly and in few words. And for this purpose, it is first necessary that I tell you my feelings on the Philosophy of Aristotle Aristotelian philosophy was the official intellectual framework of the Catholic Church (Scholasticism) during this period. To challenge Aristotle was to challenge the Church's traditional way of explaining the world., and that afterwards you agree with me on a principle of Christian Morality, without which there would be no difference between a Christian and a Pagan.

    It is that Faith is the soul of Christianity; it is the principle of all good and of all merit: Now, the more this Faith suffers from contradictions, the more it is fought by human reasoning; the more it stands alone, the more it is meritorious, more victorious, and more triumphant This argument reflects "Fideism," the idea that religious faith is independent of, or even superior to, reason. The speaker suggests that if you prove religion with logic, you take away the "merit" or reward of believing it through pure devotion.. This principle is admirable, I cried out; so that, he continued, one can do nothing more ruinous to Christian Morality than to diminish the glory and merit of this Faith, by meddling in subjecting divine things to reason. It is for the glory of Christianity that he who ap—