Ultimately, a rejection of the Incarnation

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      "In our time, the rejection of the flesh and body [of the truth that can be known and of intelligible knowledge considered] as [an] organic whole takes different forms in the world of knowledge:  [1] that of the refusal of the transmission of specific findings [(savoirs)] among the new doctrinarians of the primary and secondary schools; [2] that of the postmodern rejection of the structuration of [such] findings [(savoirs) into a [good and] beautiful whole (?)], [the] fruit of understanding, on the part of many influential university [professors] and their epigones in the world of teaching; [3] that of the indifference, disinterest, or contempt displayed by the majority of scholars for the heart of rational knowledge:  the philosophy, the theology, and the great literature that is, nonetheless, the true science of man."

     French mathematician and 2002 Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue, "En université, une communauté de personnes passionné par la verité," an address delivered to a "Conférence . . . à Rome le 6 mars 2009, dans le cadre d'une réunion d'universitaires organisée par le mouvement 'Communion et Libération'," translation mine.  Lafforgue claims to be channeling Edith Stein by way of Emmanuel Gabellieri.

In the world of [2] the universities, the learned, and the scholars, the refusal of th[e] intrusion [of the light of truth], that is to say the determination to keep a prudent distance from the truth, takes the form of positivistic objectivism and, in particular, scientism.

the rejection of the transmission of specific findings [(savoirs)] in [1] the schools of our time is a kind of rejection of the Incarnation.

the postmodern refusal of [2] the structuration of [human] knowledge [(connaissances) into a [good and] beautiful organic whole (?)] is tied to the rejection of the church as the mystical body of Christ.

Etc.  Thus,

the intuition of the trinitarian structure of the truth . . . is . . . at the root of the 'idea of the university' invented by medieval Latin Christianity.

More strikingly,

the appearance of the first fact, of the first particular truth, can be considered a prefiguration of the Incarnation.