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A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice is a culture
of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In this provocative book,
A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a
sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call
from outside and above themselves. Conyers reveals with stunning
insight how the quintessential institution of modernity is slavery,
for the slave is the ultimate autonomous individual whose ties to
family, church, and clan are dissolved. Cogently arguing for the
affections that constitute real community, Conyers restores a sense
of vocation and thus what it means to be human.
A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice is a culture
of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In this provocative book,
A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a
sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call
from outside and above themselves. Conyers reveals with stunning
insight how the quintessential institution of modernity is slavery,
for the slave is the ultimate autonomous individual whose ties to
family, church, and clan are dissolved. Cogently arguing for the
affections that constitute real community, Conyers restores a sense
of vocation and thus what it means to be human.
The political dogma of toleration is little more than a tool of the
modern state in its drive for power and wealth. In "The Long
Truce," A. J. Conyers shows that by banishing questions of ultimate
meaning from public life, the modern version of toleration has
debased our politics and undermined social cohesion. He argues
provocatively for a return to the authentic toleration found in
pre-Reformation Christianity.
A. J. Conyers was an evangelical, Baptist theologian who helped
found Truett Seminary at Baylor university. Conyers's theology
drank deeply from the wells of the Christian tradition. In this
volume, he provides what he found to be the most basic elements of
Christian theology and demonstrates a methodology that is
biblically informed, traditionally grounded, and contextually
aware. this revised edition makes this excellent work available
again, with some modified study questions, additional unpublished
material from Conyers's archives, and helpful reflection and
tributes from two of Conyers's best students-Brian Brewer and Brad
green-who carry on his legacy
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