Penumbra of Ethics
Subtitle: The Gifford Lectures of V. A. Demant with Critical Commentary and Assessment
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781498297783
Subjects: Christian ethics; Church and social problems; Civilization, western; Christian sociology
Description: Rev. Vigo Auguste Demant (1893-1983) was a significant theologian and social commentator of the first half of the twentieth century. This book contains his up-until-now unpublished Gifford Lectures, in which Demant provides cultural analysis as he attempts to address why humanity struggles so much with modernity and living in the contemporary world. The lectures have additional notes and commentary to make them comprehensible, since not all of them are complete. The first chapters set Demant in his context and the final section provides assessment of both his ideas and his impact. Although Demant died in 1983, his ideas continue to prove influential to thinkers and theologians today. -- back cover.