The West has undergone two cataclysmic religious Reformations. The Second Reformation began in the Sixteenth Century and was a rediscovery of the Biblical doctrine of grace. The First Reformation began over one thousand years earlier and was a rediscovery of the Biblical doctrine of creation.

This rediscovery of the Biblical doctrine of creation had the effect of a nuclear bomb on the West, bringing to an end the dominance of a Classical approach to man and nature. This Classical approach originated with ancient, pagan Greek and Roman philosophies. Early medieval Christendom inherited and absorbed this worldview as the Classical world itself collapsed. But as the centuries past, the medieval world, largely rooted as it was in Christianity, could not escape the Biblical doctrine of creation that had been suppressed by Greek and Latin thought. Eventually that doctrine broke free from its chains and totally reoriented the thinking and activities of man with reference to the true character of creation and the true role of man within that creation.