After ideology
Subtitle: recovering the spiritual foundations of freedom
By: David Walsh.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press; Catholic Univ of Amer Pr
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Christian sociology.; Christianity -- Philosophy.; Political science -- Philosophy.; Christianity -- Philosophy.; Conservatism.; Liberty.; Liberty -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Ideology.; Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Description: The crises of the twentieth century: wars, genocide, the proliferation of atomic weapons, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the family, have shaken our faith in modernity and in the fundamental conceit upon which it is grounded: that human beings are capable of providing their own moral and political order. Ideologies based on this conceit had at their heart the revolt against God that has so characterized modern history, and these ideologies have failed us. As the author writes: "We are now at the stage where all the ideological systems have been tried and found wanting, and there are no more new ones to be tried." He contends that the solution is to recover the spiritual foundations of freedom and order.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"First published in 1990 in a cloth edition by Harper San Francisco, a division of Harper Collins Pub."--Pub. info.