Every subject must view itself as omnicompetent. To the faint-hearted it often appears hopelessly incoherent. Truth seems to have evanesced. But if that is the case then the whole house of cards we call the modern academy is about to come tumbling down. When truth itself has become an endangered species, then the only resort is to what is below the sand of interminable and incommensurable debate.
Human truth is grounded in faith.
Without faith there would be no search for the truth and without faith what we have found cannot be held fast. Because our inquiry is always partial and finite. Its connections with all other pieces of knowledge is tenuous and mysterious. The poignant efforts of reason to authenticate its own procedures always run into the barrier of reason. We are surrounded by boundaries that cannot be breached.