Fall From Catholic World

Brainstorming this. What do you think?

1. 1200s: Unified Catholic cosmos

2. 1300–1500: Scholastic tension + reintroduction of Aristotelian naturalism

3. 1500–1650: Protestant fracture → collapse of unified Christian worldview

4. 1650–1800: Enlightenment deism → secular public order

5. 1800–1900: Darwin/Marx/Freud → destruction of human nature

6. 1914–1945: World wars → destruction of old society + rise of mass manipulation

7. 1945–present: Technocracy → psychological governance + managed humanity

Another version

The Full Catholic Cosmology (the living universe)

Summary:

Everything is held together by the Trinity’s love: the Son becomes flesh; the Cross and Resurrection redeem creation; the Holy Spirit pours charity into hearts. Matter truly carries grace (sacraments). Mary, the saints, and angels knit heaven and earth; sin and demons oppose; heaven/hell crown real freedom; humility and prayer align the world to God.

What it holds:

• Trinity • Incarnation • Cross & Resurrection

• Holy Spirit poured into hearts

• Mary, saints, angels; demons and real sin

• Sacraments as conduits of grace

• Charity, justice, stewardship; humility & prayer ordering time

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1) Greek–Arabic Aristotle Re-entry & Civilizational Rivalry (c. 1150–1250)

Summary:

Aristotle returns through Muslim/Jewish scholars; West feels pressure to match Islamic science/tech (navigation, astronomy, medicine). Reasoned method starts to lead.

What is lost:

• The everyday feel of miracle (increasingly framed as rare exceptions to “natural law”)

• Automatic symbolic reading of nature (sign → explanation)

• Primacy of long communal prayer over study and technique (subtle shift, not a denial)

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2) Aquinas & the Scholastic Consolidation (c. 1250–1300s)

Summary:

Thomas keeps the full cosmos (mystical, sacramental) but systematizes it with Aristotle; clear “natural/supernatural” distinctions stabilize teaching.

What is lost:

• Spontaneity of wonder: contemplation yields ground to disputation

• Expectation of frequent miracles in ordinary life (they’re affirmed, but treated as extraordinary)

• Dependence on prayer as the daily engine of the world (study/time-discipline begin to set the pace)

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3) System Hardens, Nominalism, Early Banking & Tech Push (c. 1300–1500)

Summary:

Method becomes mindset; nominalism cracks grace–nature unity; urban money economy rises; early usury/banking normalize credit; practical mechanics and instruments spread.

What is lost:

• Seamless sacramental sense of “one fabric” (nature vs. grace feels split)

• Gift/charity economy as the social norm (credit/contract take center stage)

• Liturgy as culture’s clock (work/measurement set time)

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4) The Reformation (1500s)

Summary:

Sacramental cosmos collapses in much of Europe; the Cross remains doctrine but leaves daily, liturgical life.

What is lost:

• Mass as living sacrifice; Real Presence denied or minimized

• Mary, saints, and angels in public devotion and imagination

• Sacraments reduced; suffering no longer read as redemptive

• Visible, cosmic unity of Church and calendar

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5) Enlightenment & Deism (1600–1800)

Summary:

To escape religious war, elites crown reason; God becomes a distant architect; nature is a self-running machine.

What is lost:

• Felt providence and the Holy Spirit’s nearness

• Angels/demons/miracle as credible public language

• Moral law as participation in God’s life (shrinks to rational code)

• Humility before mystery (autonomy becomes virtue)

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6) Industrial Capitalism & the Communist Counter-Faith (1800–1900)

Summary:

Production and progress redefine meaning; capitalism monetizes desire; communism secularizes justice.

What is lost:

• Work as vocation and offering (now output or ideology)

• Creation as gift (now resource)

• Charity as love (now efficiency or policy)

• Family/Sabbath as sacred rhythm (now units and schedules)

• Person as image of God (now consumer/worker)

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7) Modern & Post-Modern Age (1900–Present)

Summary:

Self becomes god; truth becomes preference; occult flares as a counterfeit re-enchantment.

What is lost:

• Objective moral order and shared sacred story

• Trinity ignored; Incarnation treated as symbol

• Soul and sin (replaced by psychology and self-expression)

• Humility and adoration (replaced by performance and power)

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That’s the line you drew—kept tight, with the Arabian–Western rivalry and the timing on miracles/angels set where you wanted them.