Secular humanists and other progressives have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem - those who were supposed to be liberated by secular gospel that God is Dead aren't buying it. Why not? Since the Greeks and Romans, as Robert Royal explains, religion has nurtured the development of the individual and of Western culture itself. Christianity and Judaism collaborated to create a dialogue between faith and reason that determined the history of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, and several Enlightenments, including our current postmodern moment. Royal concludes that modern democratic societies are intimately tied to a Christian view of the dignity of the human person and the health and survival of free institutions.
- ISBN10 1594033978
- ISBN13 9781594033971
- Publish Date 1 March 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Encounter Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 280
- Language English