The Day Is Now Far Spent
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: September 22, 2019
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781621643241
Description: In this powerful book by the acclaimed spiritual leader and best-selling writer, one he calls his "most important", he analyzes the profound spiritual, moral and political crisis in the contemporary world.  He says that he "considers that the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril."

"At the root of the collapse of the West, there is a cultural identity crisis. The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations."

In these words, Cardinal Sarah summarizes the theme of his book. His finding is simple: our world is on the brink of the abyss. Crisis of faith and of the Church, decline of the West, betrayal by its elites, moral relativism, endless globalism, unbridled capitalism, new ideologies, political exhaustion, movements inspired by Islamist totalitarianism.... The time has come for an unflinching diagnosis.

While making clear the gravity of the crisis through which the West has gone, the Cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without man, a world without hope.

After the great international success of his first two books, God or Nothing and The Power of Silence, Cardinal Sarah offers a wide-ranging reflection on the crisis of the contemporary world while teaching many important spiritual lessons.
Table of contents: title: Alas, Judas Iscariot; title: Spiritual and Religious Collapse
label: Part I; title: The Crisis of Faith
label: 1; title: The Crisis of the Priesthood
label: 2; title: The Crisis of the Church
label: 3; title: Acedia and the Identity Crisis
label: 4; title: Man Belittled
label: Part II; title: Hatred of Man
label: 5; title: Hatred of Life
label: 6; title: The Fall of Truth, Moral Decadence, and Bad Political Habits
label: Part III; title: Where is the World Headed?
label: 7; title: Hatred, Ridicule, and Cynicism
label: 8; title: Europe's Crisis
label: 9; title: The Errors of the West
label: 10; title: Ruthless Enemies
label: 11; title: The Deceptive Seductions of Supposedly Emancipated Life
label: 12; title: The Decline of Courage and the Fatal Utopias of the "Best of All Worlds"
label: 13; title: The Face of Postmodern Democracies and Capitalism
label: 14; title: The Funeral March of Decadence
label: 15; title: Religious Liberty
label: 16; title: Rediscovering Hope: The Practice of Christian Virtue
label: Part IV; title: God Opens His Hand
label: 17; title: What Must We Do?
label: 18; title: Let Nothing Trouble Me
label: Postscript:; title: Bibliography; title: More from Ignatius Press; title: Notes