Hazony thinks that the authors of the Hebrew scriptures would have found the reason-revelation distinction unintelligible, and aims to show us a "Bible read as reason," created by authors who understood themselves as philosophers "no less than Parmenides or Plato".
At issue here is consumer privacy, which has always been a theme of a lot of Internet services but that has become a greater flashpoint more recently for a couple of reasons: revelations about how our data has been monitored and used by organizations like the NSA; and the rise of malicious hacking that sees these vast stores of data get used in nefarious ways.
This seems to suggest that this line of reasoning about the relationship of reason and revelation is slightly different from what we have addressed above.
Ibn Taymiyya flatly denied the possibility of a conflict between reason and revelation and maintained that the perception of such a disagreement results from subjecting revelation to premises that revelation itself does not accept (Heer 1993, 188 92).
For a sense of Strauss as ultimately championing reason over revelation, see, e.g., Meier 2006 (a reading which Batnitzky describes as concluding that "revelation is in the end for Strauss a straw man"; see Batnitzky 2009, 54).
The tension between reason and revelation, prominent in Luther, was replaced by the insistence on the harmony of the two, with revelation representing the ultimate truth.
Strauss had carefully distinguished reason from revelation.
The contrast between reason and revelation was reflected in the continued development of natural theology and revealed theology.
Yet, though he believed that reason and revelation could be reconciled, he shared with the Pietists fundamental Christian tenets.
Matthew Tindal (1657 1733), most learned of the English Deists, argued that the essential part of Christianity is its ethics, which, being clearly apparent to natural reason, leaves revelation superfluous.
Lutheran philosophers and theologians, such as Christian Wolff (1679 1754) and Johann Salomo Semler (1725 91), defended the notion of the harmony of reason and revelation.
