tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311145001619682488.post3805951943727737330..comments2023-11-03T05:37:29.870-07:00Comments on Letters From the Gulag : New Atlantis and Luciferianism.The Orthodox Christian Philosopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17500088467566654434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311145001619682488.post-13586053783731750082015-01-14T14:01:36.751-08:002015-01-14T14:01:36.751-08:00His Christian Faith was subverted by Naturalism an...His Christian Faith was subverted by Naturalism and Ecumenicism, and he like some other sought to create a man made utopia. That impulse is identical to the building of the Tower of Babel, mere human pride devoid of TRUE Faith. <br />The Orthodox Christian Philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17500088467566654434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6311145001619682488.post-33764970350091024892014-12-18T12:04:32.367-08:002014-12-18T12:04:32.367-08:00To The Orthodox Christian Philosopher,
Thank you...To The Orthodox Christian Philosopher, <br /><br />Thank you for this post and your use of trending art to illustrate your ideas. I also enjoyed this when you wrote about music in the same way. Regarding Francis Bacon, and The New Atlantis, it is true that this interpretation of his work is fashionable right now, mostly because of the writings of Howard B White. <br /><br />"In 1968 Howard B. White published Peace among the Willows, the first book-length analysis of Bacon’s “New Atlantis.” White, a political theorist who regards Bacon as a principal shaper of modern political ideas, maintains that it is this utopian work and not one of Bacon’s philosophical treatises that provides the fullest statement of Bacon’s political theory. White is especially interested in what he regards as Bacon’s secularization of politics and glorification of the power of science to serve the interests of the secular state. In developing his argument, White maintains that “New Atlantis” must be read with meticulous care in order to understand Bacon’s complex interweaving and transformation of political iconography, ancient history and fables, religious symbols, scientific methodologies, and pseudo-scientific concepts. White devotes considerable attention to Bacon’s use of religious themes and argues that he manipulates them in order to subvert Christian ideas and transform them into a culturally acceptable justification for a preoccupation with luxury and materialism. According to White, Bacon’s purpose is to transform the human quest from the search for the “heavenly city” to the creation of the well-governed country, and to change the philosophical quest from an effort to understand God, God’s Creation, and humanity’s place in it to a pursuit to understand what humans can make of themselves." ~Stephen A. McKnight<br /><br />However, if you would like to see an excellent refutation of this "Luciferian" (in your words) interpretation, I would like to leave you with this link:<br /><br />http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/francis-bacons-god<br /><br />Francis Bacon's deep Christian faith is no doubt a source of anxiety to the cultural atheiesit academics. It is possible that recasting Francis Bacon as a man who assaulted the Christian faith is part of a larger effort to remove Christians from the history of science. Francis Bacon, known rightly as "the father of empirical science," introduced experimentation and direct research as a new design for understanding nature. We know that this was the intellectual shift that enabled our current industry and technology, which has improved the lives of all, not the few. This was one of the chief goals of science, in Bacon's philosophy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com