Who’s the enemy?

Along the way in her lively critique of Jenson’s “Story Thomism,” Francesca Murphy ( God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited ) notes that she has not spent much time refuting irrationalists and postmoderns, and explains why: “no one enjoying our technological world is a practising irrationalist,” and thus “the current against which our theology actually has to swim for its survival is rationalism, or making God look suspiciously like our reasoning process. Once we are more accustomed to boarding an Easyjet than a horse we expect a certain kind of predictability from our world, the explicability of logical progression rather than of felt reasonableness. It is on account of his rationalism that Hegel remains the most influential intellectualist of our postmodern culture.”