A HISTORICAL EXPOSITION OF MAN’S PERENNIAL SEARCH FOR CERTITUDE
A HISTORICAL EXPOSITION OF MAN’S PERENNIAL SEARCH FOR CERTITUDE

Summary/Abstract: The age we live in is no less tormented by the search for certitude than all the previous historical attempts to justify and enforce one culture or another. Moreover, our inability to ground any epistemological, theological and moral assumption in the realm of certitude resembles the early modern quest for truth and assurance, being nevertheless “more radical than anything found in our past” (p. xii). Undertaking an inquiry into the past might, in Susan Schreiner’s opinion, satisfy our need to look for solid proofs of objectivity and might give us an insight into the epistemological settlement of men living in times of inconsistency and uncertainty. In

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