Post-Christian

A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

Gene Edward Veith Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Crossway Books (Verlag)
978-1-4335-6578-6 (ISBN)

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This illuminating and insightful book analyzes problems with the culture’s underlying worldviews and suggests how Christians can offer solutions to current problems as a way to rebuild culture and faith.

Undaunted Hope in a Post-Christian World

We live in a post-Christian world. Contemporary thought—claiming to be “progressive” and “liberating”—attempts to place human beings in God’s role as creator, lawgiver, and savior. But these post-Christian ways of thinking and living are running into dead ends and fatal contradictions.

This timely book demonstrates how the Christian worldview stands firm in a world dedicated to constructing its own knowledge, morality, and truth. Gene Edward Veith Jr. points out the problems with how today’s culture views humanity, God, and even reality itself. He offers hope-filled, practical ways believers can live out their faith in a secularist society as a way to recover reality, rebuild culture, and revive faith.

Explores major beliefs found in contemporary culture regarding how we relate to reality, our bodies, other people, and God
Engages with philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and J. G. Hamann
Interacts with alternatives that Christians and conservatives have offered as a way to rebuild culture
Written as a follow-up to Gene Edward Veith Jr.’s book Postmodern Times

Gene Edward Veith (PhD, University of Kansas) is provost and professor of literature emeritus at Patrick Henry College. He previously worked as the culture editor of World magazine. Veith and his wife, Jackquelyn, have three grown children and seven grandchildren.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: After Postmodernism

Part 1: Reality

Constructing Our Own Worlds: The Ptolomaic Counterrevolution
Knowing Nature: The Dominance of Science
Mastering Nature: The Achievements of Science
Recovering Reality: The Story of Kant’s Neighbor

Part 2: The Body

The End of Sex: The Exaltation of Barrenness
Repudiating the Body: Engineering Children and Oneself
Sexual Counterrevolution: Toward a Theology of the Body

Part 3: Society

Culture and Anticulture: Society without Community
Power Politics and the Death of Education: From Relativism to Absolutism
Rebuilding Civilization: Options for the Dark Ages

Part 4: Religion

Spiritual but Not Religious: The Religion of the Nones
Religious but Not Spiritual: The New Gods
Post-Christian Christianity: Desecularizing the Church

Conclusion: Toward the Postsecular
General Index
Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Verlagsort	Wheaton, IL
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	448 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	1-4335-6578-1 / 1433565781
ISBN-13	978-1-4335-6578-6 / 9781433565786
Zustand	Neuware