Nathan Jacobson, A Critical Review of QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross, edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock
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In the face of a huge loss of faith in our leaders, Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock recruited a couple dozen evangelical professors to exhort naysayers in the pews to steer clear of "conspiracy theories" and dissenting opinions. Apart from a lot of generic epistemological and conversational advice, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross manages to learn and teach the wrong lesson from the early twenties. Captive to a technocratic and partisan bent, the book fails to wonder why there has been such a loss of faith in authority. Worse, on the whole, the book discourages average Christians from “doing their own research” and questioning government sanctioned experts.
Friedrich Hayek’s The Counter-Revolution of Science is a major critique of the attempt to apply the methodology of the natural sciences to social sciences, which he calls “scientism” or the abuse of reason. The Austrian-British economist and philosopher argues that this positivist approach is flawed because social institutions arise from the independent, voluntary actions of individuals whose knowledge is dispersed and inherently subjective, making their actions too complex to be quantified or predicted like physical phenomena.