I should have finished my thought in the post on Professor Schloesser's talk.
Nothing impresses the weak-minded than a great number of associations--the more associations you can make, the more people you can cite, the greater the number of ideas you can string together to make your point, the better, because if you can make all these connections, surely you must be on to something. What brilliance!
Really, if one wants to see how the Many return to the One, and in the special gratuitous way that Our Lord has made possible through grace, they should pray more and devote their lives to holiness, rather than waste their time doing bad philosophy and thinking really small thoughts (which they take to be great).
There should be no need to ask why I sympathize with those who reacted against the excessive rationalism of the universities and created devotio moderna? What would Thomas a Kempis have said tonight? I'd love to heard his comments.
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