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The Structure of Appearance: Propositional Phenomenology
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ISBN13: 9798270090562
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Structure of Appearance: Propositional Phenomenology
By S. C. Sayles
In this landmark synthesis of theology and philosophy, S. C. Sayles restores phenomenology to its true ground in the Logos. The Structure of Appearance traces the long history of thought from Heraclitus and Augustine to Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger-showing how Western reason has continually borrowed the light of revelation while denying its source. Against this inherited fracture between appearance and being, Sayles unveils a Logos-centred phenomenology in which all that appears is authored, and every act of perception is participation in divine meaning.
By S. C. Sayles
In this landmark synthesis of theology and philosophy, S. C. Sayles restores phenomenology to its true ground in the Logos. The Structure of Appearance traces the long history of thought from Heraclitus and Augustine to Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger-showing how Western reason has continually borrowed the light of revelation while denying its source. Against this inherited fracture between appearance and being, Sayles unveils a Logos-centred phenomenology in which all that appears is authored, and every act of perception is participation in divine meaning.
Through a sequence of historical chapters and a culminating Propositional Framework-written in the crystalline mode of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus-the book unfolds a theology of perception grounded in Scripture and the Reformed tradition. Creation is revealed as authored information (IΔF), consciousness as the Hieroglyphic Stream inscribed by the Word, and the cosmos as a three-fold order of Shamayim: physical, conscious, and divine. Each level of reality exists through covenantal speech, upheld by the Logos who was made flesh. Uniting metaphysics, epistemology, and doxology, Sayles leads the reader from the crisis of modern philosophy to the redemption of knowledge itself. Phenomenology becomes theology; vision becomes confession. The book concludes with a sweeping affirmation that the history of thought is the history of borrowed illumination-and that only in Christ is the grammar of reality restored. Profound, precise, and worshipful, The Structure of Appearance completes the philosophical arc of the Veritas Confirmata series. It stands as a manifesto for a renewed Christian philosophy in which every act of seeing becomes thanksgiving, and all knowledge ends in praise:
For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. - Romans 11:36
For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. - Romans 11:36
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