[circlecity]

"it was only for a sliver during the enlightenment into the romantic era and here and there afterwards that philosophers felt the need to explain their worldview step by step from subatomic particles to God."

LOL. It's the lasting legacy of Aquinas. You see it in Johnathan Edwards (and most of the Puritans) also. They refused to say in 10 pages what they could spend 200 pages on, refuting every conceivable objection and picking every nit.

[Lexinom]

Yes, and it’s called systematic theology.