On Christendoms Far Shore
Subtitle: The United States and the Western Tradition
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780761862826
Subjects: Social values; Group identity; United states, social life and customs; United states, intellectual life
Description: On Christendom's Far Shore describes and explains American society by first illuminating its foundational stones: the traditional western (Judeo-Christian) faith in God and the West's once common understanding of the natural order and the nature and destiny of man. It explores the biblical concepts of faith, paradox, tragedy and grace, time, gender relations, love, work, play, individual and communal responsibilities, freedom, and the Kingdom of Heaven. The book illustrates how these ideas and values underlie more specifically American values and American social and governmental patterns and structures...On Christendom's Far Shore depicts the present as a time of twilight with the United States caught up in a cataclysmic clash between a traditional understanding of man and of a God-centered universe and a postmodern, existential, man-centered, multicultural worldview that rejects the old values and structures and determinedly seeks a vast restructuring of the nation's social and political order and character. (back cover).