Epistemic Fragments: Reflections

By Elihu Carranza

These reflections are meditations about the spiritual dimension of existence. The Scripturalist Worldview holds that all humans possess God's endowment: The Image of God. Each individual is a created-person with a vast library of spiritual characteristics in profound complexity, experienced in daily thought and life. Everyone at some stage of life will ask in wonder what lies beyond the epistemic horizon. Avoiding ultimate questions concerning significance, meaning, beliefs, truth, knowledge, and value is not a realistic option. Suppressing the quest for meaning and truth as bogus inevitably proves to be problematic, for this choice assumes meaning itself and the reality of truth. Scientific naturalism's hypotheses, theories, or models, for example, have proven in this regard to be unsatisfactory because its worldview arbitrarily limits knowledge to its methods and conclusions - all of which are probabilistic and subject to subsequent revision or rejection. Its axiom of a closed space-time system of matter in motion plus chance, wherein all reference to the supernatural is suppressed or denied begets a reductionist frame of reference leading to nihilism. "Man is a useless expression" resigns one to meaningless existence or Bertrand Russell's "unyielding despair." Held to the prison of naturalism's worldview, Russell's conclusion is inevitable. However, beyond the boundaries of materialism, the supernatural beckons with a question: Who is the Absolute and Ultimate Point of Reference for all thought and life: Man or God? This project addresses this question in twelve dialogues between two voices from one mind. It includes a Glossary, Index, and two Appendices: Appendix A: Sanctification and Appendix B: Zeitgeist. It closes with Resources and Author Books.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544924232
• ISBN13: 9781544924236
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"