Abstract

"Logic" here is meant in an Hegelian sense "as an exhibition of philosophical thought in terms of its necessary self-development throughout modern history". Thus Galgan wishes to show, and in great measure succeeds in showing, that modernity has grown out of and in many respects is a continuation, development, and realization of crucial features of the medieval Christian experience. But Galgan makes the stronger and more controversial claim that even after modernity has emerged it remains inseparably bound up with Christianity. Consequently, modernity is not intellectually viable--lacks an inner logic, "makes no sense,"--apart from Christianity.