"the only universally accepted dogma in the modern world is the rejection of tradition"

William Chittick (among others) has recently argued [in Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World] that "the only universally accepted dogma in the modern world is the rejection of tradition." Indeed, the modern mindset is deeply informed by two regimes of "public reason" (science and philosophy) that have little regard for the role of authority and tradition in conveying, discovering, or preserving truth...This is all reinforced by the contemporary American commitment to autonomous individualism, which is confirmed and refracted through chic and popular aversions to "organized religion."(7)

-from the introduction of Dr. Jackson's Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering

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