Michael Martin presents the second atheistic critique of Jones's essay. To close out the interchange, Jones resonds to the essays of Parsons and Martin. The Futility of Non Christian Thought Biblical Christianity, properly defined in terms of classical Protestantism, offers a radical philosophical critique of non-Christian thought. A properly Biblical critique will not only demonstrate the utter futility of non-Christian thought, it will positively demonstrate that the Christian view of reality is intellectually inescapable. I will begin with a brief elaboration of a Christian critique of non-Christian thought and then turn to summarize the positive argument for the Christian view of reality.
Epistemological autonomy is the view that the human mind is the final criterion of knowledge.
Human categories alone are necessary to determine modality, truth, and value. Nevertheless, the result of this attempt to be epistemologically independent of the Christian God is epistemological futility. Those thinkers who maintain that the human mind is incompetent to serve as its own criterion of truth do not fare any better. Though apparently more humble in their refusal to make the human mind schematize reality, they nonetheless determine to play the autonomous God in their own subjective reality. Non-Christian incompetence fails and starts the circle all over again.