This essay is a brief overview of the history of modern science since 1800. It depicts the rise of modern science in the nineteenth century as a "full and final revelation of reality" which was intended as a replacement for the Christian revelation.

It then deals with the collapse of modern science as a unitary system of belief since 1962. In that year, Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" appeared. The result, in the following decades, was a revolution in the philosophy of science.

By the beginning of the twenty-first century, few philosophers or historians of...

For once the theologians and the biblical scholars are in agreement: Christ has a teaching about politics, but Christ does not teach a theory of politics.

However, it is the argument of this book that the political teaching of Christ entails a complete political theory. That theory can be discovered both in Christ's teaching and in the radical impact of that teaching on the political history of the West. That political history can only be understood as a series of deepening separations of power over time, first between the church and the state, and then within both the church...

In our time, the American political experiment is in the process of dissolution. In its place, the progressive national state has taken control of American society. The administrative state - the national judiciary and bureaucracy - now combines within itself all three of the formerly separated powers of American government. Religious freedom is also in the process of dissolution. This is because American paganism, which euphemistically goes by the name of secularism, is now the only religion that is permitted to define American society.

This booklet contains two chapters from the book...