Peter Toon lecture: Modernity, Disenchantment, and the Mediaeval Discovery of Nature - Hans Boersma

The Peter Toon Lecture: Modernity, Disenchantment, and the Mediaeval Discovery of Nature.
Hans Boersma (Professor in Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House).
Followed by Choral Evensong at 5.30pm
Jean-Marie Dominique Chenu famously located the “discovery of nature”-and the source of modern disenchantment-in the twelfth century. This lecture picks up on Chenu’s argument by tracing the separation of nature and the supernatural beyond the late Middle Ages to the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In light of the theological changes introduced by Aquinas, we should sympathetically reappraise the traditionalist Bishop Stephen's condemnations issued in 1277. In short, the secularism of modernity requires that we read creation not primarily as substance but as relationship: the harmonious chant of the love that is God.
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I studied with Peter Toon at the R.E.C. Seminary in Philadelphia in the early 1990’s when he was a visiting professor there.