JCA 1:1 (Summer 1997) p. 6 the process of either deduction (rationalism) or induction (empiricism) one can attain such certitude. The net result was an arrogance in human ability to rebuild the world from scratch on a universal foundation of knowledge.8 This period contrasts with the premodern period in its rejection of the supernatural or the transcendent. A modernistic world view has been the driving force behind science as we have come to know it in the twentieth century. It is the age of scientific