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An Answer to Objections Against
the Theist Arguments [[244-245]]
Chapter I
THE TRANSCENTAL ARGUMENT
OF MYSTICISM
Introduction
Criticism of the theistic arguments has been voluminous, to say
the very least. It would seem to be the case that vast forces of
human genius have conspired together for the express purpose
of destroying the rationality of a theistic philosophy: and thus
men have turned their minds to destroy the very divine purpose
for which they themselves exist. This is not to say that every
critic of argumentative theism is an avowed enemy of theism
itself: yet the effect is the same, for a theism which rests on any
but rational and experiential considerations eventually destroys
itself in a world where men are basically rational, even if they
do volitionally distort the application of rationality from time to
time. Rationality always stands smiling in the shadows when
humanity espouses another lover: for she knows that men will
return to her in the end. The criticism of theistic argumentation
may be classified as emanating from four distinct sources: first,
the transcendental argument of mysticism urges that all argument
for God is invalid because the Divine Reality is not knowable
by rational intellect; such critics are not bent upon the
destruction of theism but on the removal of it to some blissful
superrational realm. Again, the presuppositionalists urge that
such arguments as may be propounded for theism prove no