The deepest questions are those which penetrate to
our ultimate assumptions or beliefs and which exercise a regulative control over
our knowledge in any sphere. These are questions as to the framework of thought
with which we operate and, from which we put our questions. They are questions
as to the hidden preconceptions of which we may not be properly aware. We all
operate with regulative beliefs of this kind which are tacit and informal. They
are not normally noticed and they operate axiomatically in our interpretive
framework. Their power over us is in proportion to the fact that they are tacit
and they are axiomatically held. BUT WHENEVER A CRISIS ARRIVES, whenever deep
conflicts in opposing frameworks of thought arise, then our unconscious
assumptions, our latent beliefs, are suddenly thrust to the surface and we are
forced to think them out. UNLESS WE BELIEVE WE WILL NOT UNDERSTAND and it's only
if we believe that we will understand. There is no understanding without the
commitment of the mind to objective reality and to its natural or intrinsic
intelligibility. (TFTorrance) Indeed, what nature did Christ assume at His
Incarnation....? Lance
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