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

Post-Christian

A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture

Undaunted Hope in a Post-Christian World

We live in a post-Christian world. Contemporary thought—claiming to be “progressive” and “liberating”—attempts to place human beings in God’s role as creator, lawgiver, and savior. But these post-Christian ways of thinking and living are running into dead ends and fatal contradictions.

This timely book demonstrates how the Christian worldview stands firm in a world dedicated to constructing its own knowledge, morality, and truth. Gene Edward Veith Jr. points out the problems with how today’s culture views humanity, God, and even reality itself. He offers hope-filled, practical ways believers can live out their faith in a secularist society as a way to recover reality, rebuild culture, and revive faith.

About the Author

Gene Edward Veith (PhD, University of Kansas) 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.

Endorsement

“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, Editor in Chief, WORLD Magazine

Table of Contents for Post-Christian

Acknowledgments
Introduction: After Postmodernism

Part 1: Reality

1. Constructing Our Own Worlds: The Ptolomaic Counterrevolution
2. Knowing Nature: The Dominance of Science
3. Mastering Nature: The Achievements of Science
4. Recovering Reality: The Story of Kant’s Neighbor

Part 2: The Body

5. The End of Sex: The Exaltation of Barrenness
6. Repudiating the Body: Engineering Children and Oneself
7. Sexual Counterrevolution: Toward a Theology of the Body

Part 3: Society

8. Culture and Anticulture: Society without Community
9. Power Politics and the Death of Education: From Relativism to Absolutism
10. Rebuilding Civilization: Options for the Dark Ages

Part 4: Religion

11. Spiritual but Not Religious: The Religion of the Nones
12. Religious but Not Spiritual: The New Gods
13. Post-Christian Christianity: Desecularizing the Church

Conclusion: Toward the Postsecular
General Index
Scripture Index