V. A Sound Grounding in Christian Metaphysics
Veriphysics does not pretend to religious neutrality. The Enlightenment feigned neutrality and wound up demonstrating its impossibility. A philosophy always rests on a foundation; the question is only whether that foundation is acknowledged or concealed. The Enlightenment’s concealed foundations, autonomous reason, mechanical nature, the separation of fact and value, proved incoherent, if not outright satanic. Veriphysic’s foundations are explicit, sound, and Christian.
This is not an fearful retreat from reason into the dogmatic faith of the fideists. Veriphsyics holds that faith and reason are intrinsically complementary, not contradictory. Reason investigates reality while faith provides access to truths that reason alone cannot reach. The two do not conflict because they cannot conflict: truth is one, and any apparent contradiction between the deliverances of reason and the revelations of faith merely indicates an error somewhere, committed somewhere in the reasoning, in the interpretation of the belief, or sometimes in both. The medieval formula remains valid, as philosophy is the handmaid of theology, not because philosophy is inferior per se, but because both ultimately serve the same mistress, which is Truth.......