An internationally known writer and speaker on religion and public life brilliantly ananlyzes the causes of our current moral malaise. Guinness examines how perilously close we have come to losing the shared beliefs, traditions and ideals that have helped shape America and sets forth a compelling view of a new role for religion.
American Hour
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Former executive director of the Williamsburg Charter Foundation, a project that celebrates the right to religious liberty embodied in the U.S. Constitution, Guinness ( The Gravedigger File ) tries to cover a wide range of material as he examines "transformations and corruptions in America's . . . moral and cultural order" and suggests, not very convincingly, that the American people might be redeemed by faith. America lacks an identity, he argues as he surveys the cultural changes of the last 40 years. Rejecting both the fundamentalist desire to establish religion officially in public life and the secular humanist wish to exclude it altogether, he suggests compromising on "a civil public square in which citizens of all faiths, or none, are free to enter and engage one another in the continuing democratic discourse." While Guinness offers some useful insights, they are obscured by his sloppy prose style: bloated with quotes and shallow analysis (such as the wholesale condemnation of "non-liberal ideologies" in U.S. universities), the book reads like an intellectual Megatrends .
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
OS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford University) was born in China, raised and educated in England, and moved to the United States in 1984. He directs the Trinity Forum and is a former fellow at the East-West Institute in New York. His books include The American Hour, No God But God, and The Dust of Death.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Chip's Top Ten (wordsntone.com),
By
This review is from: The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith (Hardcover)
This book put my faith under judgment: does my faith lead to transforming the culture that surrounds me, or does it add to the culture's corruption? Guinness pinned me against the wall of my self-centeredness and privatized faith and challenged me on how well my faith interacts, reacts, and enlightens my time, my moment in history-and how well my faith is open to God's work of revival and renewal.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
There are times when history and human decisions appear to meet at a single point to cast the die of a nation's fortunes-for Rome, Caesar's crossing the Rubicon; for England, Sir Francis Drake's defeat of the Spanish Armanda; for the United States, the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chartered pluralism, pax moderna, civil public square, principled participation, strict separationism, empty eighties, principled persuasion, fourth faith, religious liberty clauses, federal liberty, public philosophy, decentralizing trend, strict separationists, fourth outcome, deepest differences, totalitarian socialism, civil religion, naked public square, cultural authority, republican character, total church, first faith, new patriotism, social diffusion, first new nation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, First Amendment, New York, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Philip Rieff, White House, World War, Peter Berger, Bill of Rights, President Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, Williamsburg Charter, George Will, Jerry Falwell, New Age, George Bush, Henry Luce, Leo Pfeffer, Martin Luther King, James Madison, Los Angeles, New England, Soviet Union New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
There are times when history and human decisions appear to meet at a single point to cast the die of a nation's fortunes-for Rome, Caesar's crossing the Rubicon; for England, Sir Francis Drake's defeat of the Spanish Armanda; for the United States, the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chartered pluralism, pax moderna, civil public square, principled participation, strict separationism, empty eighties, principled persuasion, fourth faith, religious liberty clauses, federal liberty, public philosophy, decentralizing trend, strict separationists, fourth outcome, deepest differences, totalitarian socialism, civil religion, naked public square, cultural authority, republican character, total church, first faith, new patriotism, social diffusion, first new nation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, First Amendment, New York, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Philip Rieff, White House, World War, Peter Berger, Bill of Rights, President Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Walter Lippmann, Williamsburg Charter, George Will, Jerry Falwell, New Age, George Bush, Henry Luce, Leo Pfeffer, Martin Luther King, James Madison, Los Angeles, New England, Soviet Union New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
36
books
cite this book:
See all 36 books citing this book
- Worldproofing Your Kids: Helping Moms Prepare Their Kids to Navigate Today's Turbulent Times by Lael F. Arrington on 4 pages
- Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) by Warren A. Nord in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social Management of Technology by Edward Wenk in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Luke (The NIV Application Commentary) by Darrell L. Bock on page 274, page 275, and page 515
- America's Crisis of Values: Reality and Perception by Wayne E. Baker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
See all 36 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
