Medieval Civilization: Millennia in Microcosm Week 185

Fideism — the founding of religion on blind faith alone — is a philosophical regression: it assumes knowledge without inquiry, trading the rigorous self-examination of classical philosophy for the comfortable somnambulism of dogma. It dwells entirely in a wish-world animated by infantile emotional drives — the longing for divine approval, the terror of punishment — and never once turns a critical eye on whether these drives constitute genuine moral or spiritual truth. Where the Greeks carefully distinguished between mere subjective feeling and true inwardness, Christian culture largely collapsed that distinction, flattening radically different forces into one muddy conflation.

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