Synopsis
A theologian's assault on the philosophers, charging that their claims about God, the world, and causation are unproven and in places outright unbelief.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Public domainWhat we call cause and effect is only God's habitual ordering of events, not a necessary connection the philosophers can prove by reason alone.
By denying necessary causation it limits the reach of human reason and reasserts the absolute freedom and sovereignty of God over the world.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence.
Reading note
Notice he writes partly as a master of philosophy turning its own tools against it, so the critique is internal, not naive.
Best paired with
Averroes, The Incoherence of the Incoherence