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9780974005393

Western Humanism-A Christian Perspective : A Guide for Understanding Moral Decline in Western Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780974005393

  • ISBN10:

    0974005398

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-01-31
  • Publisher: Photon Pub
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Table of Contents

Preface i
Introduction v
PART ONE---HISTORICAL
1(172)
Historical Humanism: Ancient Greece---The Quest for an Understanding of Ultimate Reality
2(18)
The Pantheism of the Presocratic Philosophers
2(4)
Sophistic vs Socratic Humanism
6(3)
The Humanism of Plato and Aristotle
9(6)
The Greek Understanding of Human Nature
15(5)
Historical Christianity: Ancient Israel
20(25)
The Faith of Abraham
22(3)
The Humanistic Greek View of Human Nature vs the Christian View
25(7)
Imputed Righteousness
32(1)
Jesus, the Christ
33(2)
Hebrew References to Jesus
35(3)
The Christian View of Ultimate Reality
38(7)
Historical Christianity: The Early and Medieval Church
45(20)
Augustine
46(10)
Aquinas
56(9)
Historical Humanism: The Renaissance
65(21)
Petrarch
67(6)
Valla
73(7)
Erasmus
80(6)
Historical Christianity: The Reformation
86(28)
Luther
87(13)
Calvin
100(14)
Historical Humanism: The Enlightenment
114(27)
The Post-Reformation Astronomers
115(4)
Voltaire
119(7)
Kant
126(8)
The American Enlightenment
134(7)
Historical Humanism: Secular Humanism
141(32)
Darwin
143(8)
Nietzsche
151(7)
Freud
158(9)
Marx
167(6)
PART TWO---MODERN
173(63)
The Humanistic Search for a Sense of Personal Fulfillment
174(18)
The Western Pursuit of Material Wealth, i.e. The Chase of the Mammon
175(10)
The Pursuit of Sexual Pleasure
185(7)
Modern Humanism and the Family
192(18)
On the Nature of Love
195(1)
The Love of Eros
196(4)
The Issue of Abortion
200(3)
The Effect of Humanism on Philosophies of Child Rearing
203(7)
Modern Humanism and Religion
210(19)
The Humanism of Modern Judaism
211(4)
The Humanism of Dr. Wayne Dyer
215(2)
Homosexuality and Religion
217(4)
The Humanism that Threatens Biblical Christianity
221(8)
Summary
229(7)
Notes 236(21)
Index 257

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