The Lord be with you
While listening to Issues Etc, I heard reference to a
blog/website titled “The Underground Thomist.” It is maintained by Dr. J.
Budziszewski, a teacher at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor
of government and philosophy with a focus on the ethical basis of politics. So I
checked it out a bit. What I read, I liked. Here is a link to the site.
One of the items I read was a book review of a book by
Guenter Lewy. The book is titled Why America Needs Religion: Secular
Modernity and Its Discontents. The review is titled Second Thoughts of A
Secularist and first appeared a publication titled First Things. It
begins:
Second Thoughts of A Secularist
By J. Budziszewski
April 1997
Why
America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents
By Guenter Lewy
Eerdmans, 160 pages, $18
By Guenter Lewy
Eerdmans, 160 pages, $18
In its scant 160 pages, this book
has everything: riveting argument and thrilling mystery sandwiched between an
incoherency and a paradox. Apparently nothing in its writing went according to
plan. When he began his project the author was a proud secular humanist, a
card-carrying moral relativist, and a subscriber to the view of reason that
holds faith to be unreasonable. His design was to ridicule the writers who
ridiculed his creeds and demolish their proposition that the real crisis of our
age is a crisis of unbelief. Somewhere along the way he discovered that they
were right after all. Partly right, anyway.
Though Professor Lewy still
believes that there is no God, he now finds that …
To finish the review follow this link: SECOND THOUGHTS OF A SECULARIST
Blessings in Christ,
Pastor John Rickert
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