Letters to My Son

Meditations on the Gospel of Jesus Christ for a New Christian

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Bible & Bible Studies, Meditations
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Author: Vivienne E. Perkins Ph.D. ISBN: 9781490888132
Publisher: WestBow Press Publication: July 30, 2015
Imprint: WestBow Press Language: English
Author: Vivienne E. Perkins Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781490888132
Publisher: WestBow Press
Publication: July 30, 2015
Imprint: WestBow Press
Language: English

After forty years of theological, historical, and scriptural study, Vivienne E. Perkins, PhD, came to a unique conclusion: that mans entry into the modern and postmodern agesfacilitated by the superficial thought of the Enlightenment philosophesundermined the traditional Christian understanding of human sin in relation to the God who created and sustains the universe. This path had been blazed before her by the great Russian philosopher, Lev Shestov, and by the French Reformed Christian author of forty books on technology (as well as the Gospel), Jacques Ellul.

Believing that the evil effects of Enlightenment thinking pose an unrecognized obstacle to her contemporaries realizing the absolute necessity of a scriptural understanding of Christs role in saving man from his overwhelming social and personal sinwhich is now destroying the only planet upon which man can build a futureDr. Perkins is determined to live her faith by adopting Daniel as her son and laying out a clear explanation of Western civilizations wrong turns during the last 250 years. Modern man, this author believes, is so absorbed in worshiping his supposed technological progress that he does not yet see what Shestov, Mumford, Lyotard, Ellul, and other serious thinkers have seenthat we misunderstand the real essence of progress and that the unrestrained technological progress we admire so much cannot give us a human future on a healthy planet. Climate catastrophe looms, and we are now facing a situation in which to repent (to change) is our only option.

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After forty years of theological, historical, and scriptural study, Vivienne E. Perkins, PhD, came to a unique conclusion: that mans entry into the modern and postmodern agesfacilitated by the superficial thought of the Enlightenment philosophesundermined the traditional Christian understanding of human sin in relation to the God who created and sustains the universe. This path had been blazed before her by the great Russian philosopher, Lev Shestov, and by the French Reformed Christian author of forty books on technology (as well as the Gospel), Jacques Ellul.

Believing that the evil effects of Enlightenment thinking pose an unrecognized obstacle to her contemporaries realizing the absolute necessity of a scriptural understanding of Christs role in saving man from his overwhelming social and personal sinwhich is now destroying the only planet upon which man can build a futureDr. Perkins is determined to live her faith by adopting Daniel as her son and laying out a clear explanation of Western civilizations wrong turns during the last 250 years. Modern man, this author believes, is so absorbed in worshiping his supposed technological progress that he does not yet see what Shestov, Mumford, Lyotard, Ellul, and other serious thinkers have seenthat we misunderstand the real essence of progress and that the unrestrained technological progress we admire so much cannot give us a human future on a healthy planet. Climate catastrophe looms, and we are now facing a situation in which to repent (to change) is our only option.

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