What is at stake in the twentieth century is not simply a single doctrine, such as the Virgin Birth, or the existence of Hell, as important as those doctrines may be, but the whole of Christianity itself. If knowledge is not possible to man, it is worse than silly to argue points of doctrine it is insane. The Age of Irrationalism Historians have christened the thirteenth century the Age of Faith and termed the eighteenth century the Age of Reason. Contemporary secular intellectuals are anti-intellectual. Contemporary philosophers are anti-philosophy.
Contemporary theologians are anti-theology.
The irrationalism of the present age is so thoroughgoing and pervasive that even the Remnant the segment of the professing church that remains faithful has accepted much of it, frequently without even being aware of what it was accepting. In some circles this irrationalism has become synonymous with piety and humility, and those who oppose it are denounced as rationalists as though to be logical were a sin. Our contemporary anti-theologians make a contradiction and call it a Mystery. The faithful ask for truth and are given absurdity. If any balk at swallowing the absurdities of the anti-theologians, they are frequently marked as heretics or schismatics who seek to act independently of God.