The Latter-day Saint understanding of knowledge and revelation is much more neo-platonic than an Evangelical Christian might understand. The Church is a structure or framework that provides guidelines to individuals obtaining personal revelation. Its a hierarchical institution designed to mass-produce mystics. The church doesn't produce Thomas Aquinas, it produces Dionysius the Aeropagite. Systematizers get overruled by revelation. It's a real, persistent tension.
The Church is a Dionysian framework that perpetually worries it is turning into a Thomistic or managerial one. The worry seems to be part of the tradition.
The Latter-day Saint understanding of knowledge and revelation is much more neo-platonic than an Evangelical Christian might understand. The Church is a structure or framework that provides guidelines to individuals obtaining personal revelation. Its a hierarchical institution designed to mass-produce mystics. The church doesn't produce Thomas Aquinas, it produces Dionysius the Aeropagite. Systematizers get overruled by revelation. It's a real, persistent tension.
The Church is a Dionysian framework that perpetually worries it is turning into a Thomistic or managerial one. The worry seems to be part of the tradition.
Good insight, I like the Dionysius point. Thanks!