Intuition and the Creation of a Better World
Intuition in Religion
Armstrong, Karen
… the whole of Western theology had been characterized by an inappropriate reliance upon reason alone, ever since the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rationalism had achieved such spectacular results that empirical reason came to be regarded as the sole path to truth, and Western people started to talk about God as an objective, demonstrable fact like any other. The more intuitive disciplines of mythology and mysticism were discredited. This was the cause of many of the religious problems of our day, including my own.
Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness. New York, Anchor Books, 2004. P. 294
