Human Image
World Image: The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology
Εκδότης:
Denise Harvey
Έτος:
2004
ISBN:
9789607120175
Σελίδες:
187
Εξώφυλλο:
Μαλακό
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Human Image
It is now only too evident that the revolutionary changes in mental outlook that took place in western Christendom some three or four centuries ago, and that produced the modern scientific movement, are the major cause of the crisis in which the world finds itself today. Yet the terrifying consequences of the practical exploration of modern science are usually attributed not to modern science as such -and still less to the mental picture of the universe which it presupposes- but simply to its misapplication and abuse. We are even told, with a naivety that is as inconsequential as it is typical, that modern science must be good because what it true cannot be evil and since modern science works, or produces results, it must be true.
This book attacks such misconceptions head-on, and at the deepest level. By setting the modern scientific picture of the universe and man's place in it against the background of pre-Christian and Christian cosmology and anthropology, the author shows unambiguously how our acceptance of this picture has literally enslaved us to a vast collective lie whose ramification in the major spheres of our thought and action cannot but vandalize and desecrate both ourselves and the world we live in. The thesis is presented with clarity, eschewing sensationalism and appealing to the disciplined intelligence and its capacity for coherend discourse. The last and perhaps most challenging chapter formulates a cosmological vision in the personalized terms of the sacred mythology of the Christian tradition.
It is now only too evident that the revolutionary changes in mental outlook that took place in western Christendom some three or four centuries ago, and that produced the modern scientific movement, are the major cause of the crisis in which the world finds itself today. Yet the terrifying consequences of the practical exploration of modern science are usually attributed not to modern science as such -and still less to the mental picture of the universe which it presupposes- but simply to its misapplication and abuse. We are even told, with a naivety that is as inconsequential as it is typical, that modern science must be good because what it true cannot be evil and since modern science works, or produces results, it must be true.
This book attacks such misconceptions head-on, and at the deepest level. By setting the modern scientific picture of the universe and man's place in it against the background of pre-Christian and Christian cosmology and anthropology, the author shows unambiguously how our acceptance of this picture has literally enslaved us to a vast collective lie whose ramification in the major spheres of our thought and action cannot but vandalize and desecrate both ourselves and the world we live in. The thesis is presented with clarity, eschewing sensationalism and appealing to the disciplined intelligence and its capacity for coherend discourse. The last and perhaps most challenging chapter formulates a cosmological vision in the personalized terms of the sacred mythology of the Christian tradition.
| Τίτλος βιβλίου: | Human Image | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Υπότιτλος βιβλίου: | World Image: The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology | ||
| Εκδότης: | Denise Harvey | ||
| Συντελεστές βιβλίου: | Sherrard, Philip, 1922-1995 (Συγγραφέας) | ||
| ISBN: | 9789607120175 | Εξώφυλλο βιβλίου: | Μαλακό |
| Στοιχεία έκδοσης: | Ιανουάριος 2004 | Διαστάσεις: | 23x13 |
| Κατηγορίες: | Επιστήμες > Θετικές > Φυσική Επιστήμες > Επιστήμες του Ανθρώπου > Θρησκεία | ||
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