greenbaggins
Puritan Board Doctor
James Thornwell, referencing Aristotle and John Locke, said it this way:
When the Enlightenment came along and dethroned theology from its rightful place at the head of all knowledge, then the rest of knowledge immediately started breaking up into smaller and smaller fragments, as it is today. Bits of knowledge float free-form and utterly isolated from anything else.
(B)oth Aristotle and Locke regard it (theology, LK) "as the comprehension of all other knowledge," so that without it all other knowledge is fragmentary, partial and incomplete (Works of Thornwell, volume 1, p. 25).
When the Enlightenment came along and dethroned theology from its rightful place at the head of all knowledge, then the rest of knowledge immediately started breaking up into smaller and smaller fragments, as it is today. Bits of knowledge float free-form and utterly isolated from anything else.