We are caught, instead, in a passion that surpasses intellectualizing. Our knowing is caught up by the ultimate question of our being. The questions push us to the very root of our being. Science must recognize the power of these reflections. Much of modern thinking has narrowed the range of thought rather than expanding our options.
Contemporary thought tends to be atheistic.
Divine word is all but absent from modern social thought. Modern has become synonymous with atheistic. The search must be dialectical, requiring a scrutiny of everything we believe in and live by. Good physician who tells patient what they don't want to hear for force them to see selves more clearly ignores role of faith, hope, and spirit. The value of inquiry is not to show that symbols are false, but to discover the meanings that people create and their function.