The Restoration of Reason from the Eyes of a Neighbor: A Shema-Christological Metaphysic of Conative Healing

Douglas Blake Olds

Being an annotated, sermonic prolegomenon to millenarian iconoclasm preceding judgment--a theological prolepsis, the intervention into modern philosophy of mind, evolutionary theory, AI discourse, metaphysical epistemology in the age of Daniel 2:43, and in the footnotes, the necessary and overdue rehabilitation of Johann Gottfried Herder. This essays proposes a peripat(h)etic, perichoretic grammar for theological and pedagogical reconstruction after ideological collapse—anchored not in institutions, formal aesthetics, or instrumental binary logic, but in re-covenanted conation as intent.


This essay emerges at the intersection of post-secular crisis (AI, collapsing rationalism, technocratic reduction) and theological covenanted renewal (Shema-conation, poietic Bildung, Pentecostal immanence, earth trustee ethics). 

It offers an urgent, ethically grounded alternative to both secularism and idle metaphysical nostalgia.

Full essay linked here


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