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A Post-Christendom Faith - The Long Battle for the Human Soul (Hardcover)
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A Post-Christendom Faith - The Long Battle for the Human Soul (Hardcover)
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Confronted by multiple religious possibilities, the rise of
atheistic naturalism, and moral relativism, one can easily become
perplexed about what matters most-or be tempted to conclude that
nothing could matter most. As the first volume of A
Post-Christendom Faith, a set of three interrelated theological
works, The Long Battle for the Human Soul examines major historical
developments that have led to our contemporary confusion-so that we
might chart a way forward. Philip Rolnick begins with a theological
assessment of the Reformation, Enlightenment, and French
Revolution, three movements that attempted, and to some degree
accomplished, basic reformulations of humanity. After the shock of
the Reformation, with its faith-based criticism, the
Enlightenment's reason-based criticism more or less set faith
aside. The radical nature of Enlightenment criticism in turn led to
the radical anthropological reformulations of the French
Revolution-and then devolved into the Terror. Separated from
Christian faith, and oftentimes fiercely opposing it, early forms
of secular humanism poured their energies into reshaping social and
political structures, while the crescendo of critique profoundly
altered the spiritual landscape of the West. With foundational
certainties shattered, new movements arose that pulled in different
directions, some of them dangerous and deadly. Rolnick maps this
fracturing through Feuerbach's atheism, the excesses of Romantic
literature, the rise of nihilism, the "moral inversion" of Marxism,
Comte's positivism, and Nietzsche's all-out war against
Christianity. In this story of broken foundations, Rolnick is
careful to show that the church and the gospel have never ceased to
offer a very different foundation-trustworthy and eternally
enduring. This first volume ends on a hopeful note, turning from
the problematic humanism of recent centuries to a humanism grounded
in incarnational faith. Its christological reflection looks beyond
brokenness and toward the one who has never ceased restoring human
wholeness.
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