The modern Western world is full of confusion. Divides over religion, politics, and ethics continue to grow faster by the day. In the midst of this turmoil, a number of proposals have been offered as to why this is happening, along with a variety of solutions to these problems. Jordan Cooper argues that most treatments of our cultural condition do not go far enough in capturing the essential philosophical and theological shifts that have shaped the modern world. Cooper contends that the crisis faced by Westerners in the twenty-first century cannot be rightly discussed apart from the three transcendentals that shaped the Western tradition from Socrates through the Protestant Reformation: truth, goodness, and beauty. Western man's greatest need is not more technological development, better politicians, or radical revolution; our need is to be connected to the transcendental ground of our own being: God himself. In this work, these three transcendentals are discussed first as they were developed in classic Western thought, and second, as their importance has declined in the modern world. Print: $22.00 Kindle: $22.00 |
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Caleb
1/7/2023 10:23:30 pm
Is this book's topic and content similar at all to the Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan? I recently read Klavan's book and it fascinated me how the decline of christian culture in light of a new secular society has happened before during the times of the romantic writers, but I wanted to read a Lutheran perspective on how the ideas of truth and beauty are fundamental to society and how the perversion and hijacking of these concepts have led us to our current state. Does this book address how it is necessary to correctly identify beauty, truth, and goodness in order for society to function?
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