Mere Simulacrity, Session 2Throughout the ages, theological and philosophical movements have been advanced based uponhalf-truths, false rhetoric, and equivocations championed as axiomatic principles.Theologians and philosophers, whether they are evangelical or non-evangelical, still usesimilar rhetorical devices to champion claims that undercut the concept of a universally validapproach to knowledge. They will say things such as: People have different perspectives, right?Clearly your background and personal biases influence your reading of the Bible or any othertext, right? It would be overly prideful to claim that anyone particular person has the correctinterpretation of the text, so why don’t you take a humbler approach?Fundamental to these questions is a half-truth; namely, the fact that people do approachevents, texts, or situations from different vantage points. However, underlying this approach is aphilosophical commitment to the belief we cannot have universally valid frameworks ofunderstanding. Many believe any commitment to a universally valid framework of understandingought to be considered arrogant, white, western, patriarchal, or racist. Essential to this line ofreasoning are one of many philosophical approaches to reality known as idealism, subjectivity,relativism, perspectivalism, or any other “ism” that affirms all we have are interpretations, notknowledge.Dr. Bill Roach traces the rise of different idealistic revolutions up to the present dayembrace of the existential method by evangelical scholars and pastors. He addresses Plato’smetaphysical idealistic, Kant’s epistemological idealistic revolution, Schleiermacher’shermeneutical idealistic revolution, and Post-Modernism’s linguistic idealistic revolution.Special emphasis is placed upon leading figures in philosophical hermeneutics and the variousways present-day scholars, whether secular or evangelical, have embraced one or more of thevarious expressions of philosophical idealism. Dr. Roach concludes with a call to embracephilosophical realism as a corrective to the varying idealistic revolutions throughout the historyof ideas.https://sovereignnations.comSupport Sovereign Nations:https://paypal.me/sovnationshttps://patreon.com/sovnationsFollow Sovereign Nations: https://sovereignnations.com/subscribe/© 2023 Sovereign Nations. All rights reserved. #sovereignnations #williamroach #hermeneutics