If Jeffery Kalb's music book thesis is correct it destroys the Descartes/Bacon "Enlightenment" presumptions of modernity. - The Catholic Monitor I 've found your Gilson and M and M books deeply packed in each page as I skimmed through them. In both books you point out that Bergson errs in "reducing being to becoming" which you seem to infer is "Gilson's underlying assumption" as he apparently follows Bergson. If that is true that explains why Gilson despite many good insight poisoned the well of pre-Vatican II philosophy and theology. Reading your M and M, I'm starting to suspect your going in the right direction in your book because modernity math that is based on Descartes math as well as philosophy and Newton's math based on Descartes, but taken farther and with many good insights seems to lead to Newton's outright Arianism and a type of practical Arianism in Western culture (in the sense practical atheism) which lead to Hume...