Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

by Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

by Gene Edward Veith Jr.

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Overview

This illuminating and insightful book analyzes problems with the culture’s underlying worldviews and suggests how Christians can offer solutions to current problems as a way to rebuild culture and faith.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433565786
Publisher: Crossway
Publication date: 01/28/2020
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gene Edward Veith (PhD, University of Kansas) is provost and professor of literature emeritus at Patrick Henry College. He previously worked as the culture editor of World magazine. Veith and his wife, Jackquelyn, have three grown children and seven grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction: After Postmodernism 13

Part 1 Reality

1 Constructing Our Own Worlds: The Ptolomaic Counterrevolution 25

2 Knowing Nature: The Dominance of Science 37

3 Mastering Nature: The Achievements of Technology 59

4 Recovering Reality: The Story of Kant's Neighbor 75

Part 2 The Body

5 The End of Sex: The Exaltation of Barrenness 97

6 Repudiating the Body: Engineering Children and Oneself 115

7 Sexual Counterrevolution: Toward a Theology of the Body 139

Part 3 Society

8 Culture and Anticulture: Society without Community 171

9 Power Politics and the Death of Education: From Relativism to Absolutism 189

10 Rebuilding Civilization: Options for the Dark Ages 211

Part 4 Religion

11 Spiritual but Not Religious: The Religion of the Nones 233

12 Religious but Not Spiritual: The New Gods 247

13 Post-Christian Christianity: Desecularizing the Church 267

Conclusion: Toward the Postsecular 289

General Index 308

Scripture Index 319

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Post-Christian is a provocative overview of the challenges Christians at the whipping post face. As the sea of faith temporarily recedes, fewer people have the confidence to debate ideas, raise children, and build institutions. Gene Veith explains the problems of constructing our own worlds, exalting barrenness, and building society without community. Some leaders say we’ll survive by secularizing the church, but this book shows a better way: pray and work for a new reformation.”
Marvin Olasky

“No one has taught me how to think like a Christian more than Gene Veith. Post-Christian just may be the magnum opus of a writer and thinker who has already contributed a body of work of immeasurable worth to the church. This book is a library in miniature for the Christian who wants to navigate the post-Christian world biblically, thoughtfully, and faithfully. It should be on the shelf in every Christian home.”
Karen Swallow Prior,  author, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

“Gene Veith’s Post-Christian is a logical, cogent, sensible, no-spin, facts-based, unapologetic analysis of the zeitgeist in Western culture. Which is to say, it’s not very politically correct. But that’s a good thing! In this post-truth, reality-denying cultural moment, we need the grounded sanity this book provides. Highly informative and well-researched, Post-Christian is a treasure trove of wisdom and a valuable resource for the church’s revitalization.”
Brett McCracken, Senior Editor, The Gospel Coalition; author, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“In the barrage of books attempting to make sense of our particular cultural moment, few authors exhibit the range of thought and clarity of mind that is on display in Post-Christian. Gene Veith is a competent guide through the maze of exhausted ideas that characterize late modernity. Science, technology, sex, politics, religion—nothing has escaped the corrosive effects of the attempt to abandon Christianity. This is, however, not a book of despair but of hope. As Veith reminds us, the truths of the Christian faith continually reassert themselves, for they are rooted in reality itself.”
Mark T. Mitchell, Dean of Academic Affairs, Patrick Henry College

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