First Things RSS Feed - Thomas Fitzgerald https://www.firstthings.com/author/thomas-fitzgerald en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:57:00 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/thomas-fitzgerald 60 The Future of Belief https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/05/the-future-of-belief https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/05/the-future-of-belief Wed, 01 May 1996 00:00:00 -0400 I could start by announcing, “Western epistemology is in crisis!””but most readers would find the line pretentious. The chatty alternative, “The world these days makes less sense,” sounds nearly as trite as the journalistic, “People are a lot more cynical than they used to be,” and I find myself hesitant to make what seems an extravagant claim: “A serious shift has occurred in knowing and believing , in the ways we see, take in, think about, and affirm the world.”

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