Escape from Reason

Name: Escape from Reason
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ISBN: 9780830834051

ISBN-10: 0830834052

ISBN-13: 9780830834051

Edition: 1968

Authors: Francis A. Schaeffer, J. P. Moreland

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Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face perennial existential problems--anxiety, despair, purposelessness. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason. Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1968
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 12/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 125
Size: 4.25" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Foreword



Preface





Nature and Grace


Aquinas and the Autonomous


Painters and Writers


Nature Versus Grace


Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael





A Unity of Nature and Grace


The Reformation and Man


More About Man


Reformation, Renaissance and Morals


The Whole Man





Early Modern Science


Kant and Rousseau


Modern Modern Science


Modern Modern Morality


Hegel


Kierkegaard and the Line of Despair





The Leap


Secular Existentialism


The New Theology


Upper Story Experiences


Linguistic Analysis and the Leap





Art as the Upper Story Leap


Poetry: The Later Heidegger


Art: Andre Malraux


Picasso


Bernstein


Pornography


The Theater of the Absurd





Madness


The "Upstairs" in Film and Television


Upper Story Mysticism


Jesus the Undefined Banner





Rationality and Faith


The Bible Can Stand on Its Own


Beginning from Myself and Yet


The Source of the Knowledge We Need


The "Leap in the Dark" Mentality


The Unchanging in a Changing World


Index


Index