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The essay examines how post-Enlightenment cosmology reshapes social imagination and human consciousness, contrasting it with medieval conceptions of reality and self. By using medieval cosmology and anthropology as a reference point, it identifies deficits more clearly and proposes medieval axioms as coherent with biblical cosmology, supporting a fuller anthropological perspective for modern Christians.","# Wonder Has Left the World:The Difficulties ofPost-Enlightenment Cosmology and Anthropology\n\nDustin AtchleySoutheastern Baptist Theological Seminary  \nAbstract:Ideas have consequences.Suicide rates,depression,and anxiety areat an all-time high in the Western world.The Western mind is malnourishedThis essay vill consider the relationship between the cosmology and anthropologyof the post-enlightened West and its consequences on the social imagination.Byevaluating conceptions of reality and self outside of our modern,socio-culturalmilieu,our deficits may be grasped more clearly.Medieval cosmology produceda particular social imagination that is wbolly foreign to contemporarysensibilities;bowever,one is unable to distinguish what constitutes theirimagination and its outworkings until they have been given a point of referenceIn this way,the medieval perspective is valuable to the post-enlightened West.First,the relationship betwveen cosmology and anthropology of the medievalmind will be considered.Second,the relationsbip between post-Enligbtenmentcosmology and anthropology will be considered and compared to the olderconception.Finaly,certain axioms of medieval anthropology wvill be drawn outand shown to be superior to the post-Enlightenment conception in theircoherence with a biblical cosmology and in the aspects of social imaginationwhich they produced.Specifically,place and role in the cosmic hierarchy,anthropological constitution,and origins of meaning will be evaluated andproposed as integral to reclaiming a fuller anthropological perspective amongmodern Christians.  \nKey Words:anthropology,being,cosmology,C.S.Lewis,Enlightenment,humanity,medieval,wonder  \n\"And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into theWest...\"so concludes J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Return of the King.1 This shipcarried Frodo,the protagonist,to the undying lands where he may enjoypeace and rest after his labors.This same ship carries Elrond,Galadriel,and Gandalf,three of the most influential and magical individuals of the  \nThird Age.With the destruction of the ring and the advent of the king,the time of the elves has passed,and the time of men has come.And asthe new age dawns,magic and myth leave the world.  \nIf one considers Tolkien's broader legendarium,this departure of themythical and magical elements of the cosmos as time passes becomes anapparent theme.2 Magic trickles down and disseminates until ultimately itdisappears entirely.While this is a work of fiction,Tolkien has struck atsomething profoundly true.Magic,myths,and wonder they engenderhave left our world.In the twenty-first century,we have every modernconvenience available to us,far more information than we could evermanage,and a comfortable explanation for most all phenomena in ourday-to-day experience.Our planet is a rock floating in a vast ocean ofsterility.Our emotions are biochemical reactions.Modern man has all theanswers.We live sterile lives driven by sterile ideas.Magic,myth,andwonder have left our world.  \nFrom the Enlightenment forward,the domesticated kitten of sciencegrew into a man-eating lion.Darwin,Freud,and Tesla have infiltrated usall far deeper than we would like to admit.Despite modern prejudices,medieval man lived with wonder.He lived with magic.We look to thestars and think of gaseous balls in a vacuum.Medieval man wondered ata cosmos teeming with life,movement,and beings traversing the celestialspheres centered on the Living God and Immovable Mover.  \nThe point then is this:ideas have consequences.As C.S.Lewis pointsout,the problem with our model is not that it is less scientifically accuratethan the discarded cosmology.3 The problem is the new cosmology's im-pact on social imagination and human consciousness is less desirable thanthe discarded cosmology,at least in some ways.In embracing the modernunderstanding of the universe,although scientifically useful,we havehanded our imaginations over to Darwin,Freud,and Tesla.In receivingtheir conclusions or explanations,w","cbCaivvg1aDJ8jav","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivvg1aDJ8jav","pdf",9583362,7,1,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Consequences for social imagination and human consciousness\n# Medieval cosmology and the Chain of Being\n## Concentric spheres and cosmic music\n## Hell, paradise, and orders of being\n## Liberal arts education and formation of character\n# Post-Enlightenment comparison and implications\n## Differences in cosmology and anthropology\n## Proposed strengths of medieval axioms","[{\"question\":\"What does the essay claim about ideas and consequences in the Western world?\",\"answer\":\"The essay argues that ideas shape human life and social imagination, and that modern assumptions about reality contribute to serious 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