A Christian Perspective of Postmodern Existentialism: The New Humanism of Western Culture
Ebook
Overview
The Western Humanism originating in classical Greek philosophy--where the capacity of human reason became the dominant means for perceiving a worldview based in reality--reigned in Western philosophy until the onset of Postmodern Existentialism in the mid-twentieth century. Plato’s Theory of Forms prepared the Western gentile mind to accept the rationality of a transcendent ultimate reality, and in so doing steered the gentile mind from its bent to pantheistic deities. The apostle Paul boldly proclaimed to the Athenians that their “unknown god” was indeed the transcendent God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Christianity prevailed in Western philosophy until the Enlightenment--which was the result of the unprecedented success of the scientific method--began to turn the Western mind to the existentialistic idea of the relativity of moral truth.
“John D. Carter overviews the extent of existentialism in
Western culture and offers a Christian apologetic for finding
ultimate value, purpose, and meaning not in being human, but in
being in relationship with the God of Scripture.”
—Joshua Hollmann, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology,
Concordia University, St. Paul
- Title: A Christian Perspective of Postmodern Existentialism: The New Humanism of Western Culture
- Author: John Carter
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725292659, 9781725292635, 9781725292642, 1725292653, 1725292637, 1725292645
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725292659
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:29:20Z
John D. Carter was an industrial research scientist and chief
chemist before becoming a writer in Christian philosophy. With a
long-standing interest in Western philosophy, he is the author of
Western Humanism: A Christian Perspective—A Guide for
Understanding Moral Decline in Western Culture (2005). He holds
a BS in chemistry from Bob Jones University, an MS in chemistry
from Purdue University, and a PhD in polymer science from the
University of Akron.