Eternal Day: The Christian Alternative to Secularism and Modern Psychology

by Farber, Seth

• ISBN13: 9780964914131
• ISBN10: 0964914131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Eternal Day shows how modern psychology became a rival to Christianity + Presents positive lessons that enable the reader to embrace the Orthodox Church + Examines the philosophical perspective that derives from Augustine and how it led the Western churches into heresy + Shows how Augustine, Luther and Calvin opened the door to Freud and modern determinism + Tells of the author's powerful conversion from Jewish atheism to the Orthodox Church + Explains how the author found true spiritual fulfillment in the Church, and much more. Eternal Day is a book that should be read by all Orthodox interested in the Christian alternative to modern thinking. It is the perfect gift to give a non-Orthodox friend. It is also perfect for college students trying to remain Orthodox in a secular campus environment.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(6)
Acknowledgements	15	(1)
About The Author	16	(5)
Prologue	21	(21)
PART ONE
The Reign of Augustine	42	(14)
The Augustinian Revision	56	(11)
Augustine and the Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture	67	(7)
Calvin and Total Depravity	74	(12)
PART TWO
The Myth of Mental Illness: Freud's Secularization of Augustine's Metaphysics	86	(13)
Freud's Theory of Human Depravity	99	(15)
Neo-Freudianism in the Modern Era	114	(18)
Biological Psychiatry	132	(17)
PART THREE
The Church Versus the Service Professions	149	(17)
The Mental Patient as Exile or as Christian Initiate	166	(18)
PART FOUR
St. Gregory of Nyssa	184	(8)
The Limits of Secularism	192	(5)
Christian Humanism: Beyond Secularism and Augustinianism	197	(13)
The Christian Developmental Model	210