George Walsh on Protestant Fundamentalism, Lecture 2: Ethics and Politics
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The Importance of Special Enlightenment
The average fundamentalist understands this faith to be an active submission of the mind without evidence and generated out of personal despair. Such an attitude is similar to Tertullians that Professor Peacov told you about in his lectures in the history of philosophy, Tertullian. It is certain because it is impossible. This revelation is quote objective, valid and rational. Therefore the person of good will ought to see God in God's works. But the astronaut may say he cannot see it. His vision is blurred by sin. He needs in Calvin's words quote the spectacles of faith. The total number of such books is 66 39 of the Old Testament and 27 of the fundamentalistic sound as
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