Our Shadowed World / Westar Studies (ePub)
Reflections on Civilization, Conflict, and Belief
(Sprache: Englisch)
Civilization is often equated with the story of human advancement and progress. Yet it is also the story of human oppression, exploitation, war, and empire. In our own time, modern global civilization has brought us to the brink of planetary destruction. By...
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Civilization is often equated with the story of human advancement and progress. Yet it is also the story of human oppression, exploitation, war, and empire. In our own time, modern global civilization has brought us to the brink of planetary destruction. By offering an understanding of our past, this book aims to provide a stimulus to considering a different future. Our Shadowed World considers how we have been brought to this point. It describes how the fragmented and conflicted state of humanity has "progressed" from the earliest city-states to the devastation of world war and holocaust--how civilization has brought its own form of savagery.
What beliefs have underlain and motivated human action? How have humans tried to understand their world? Driven by the relentless quest for power, by greed, and by extreme beliefs, the human enterprise today has placed the very idea of civilization under threat, the subject of radical questioning. Despite a new ecological awareness dedicated to saving the planet from civilization's carelessness, and a preoccupation with the nature of apocalyptic thinking, a question mark looms over the very survival of humanity in its present state--a question mark that now overshadows the world.
What beliefs have underlain and motivated human action? How have humans tried to understand their world? Driven by the relentless quest for power, by greed, and by extreme beliefs, the human enterprise today has placed the very idea of civilization under threat, the subject of radical questioning. Despite a new ecological awareness dedicated to saving the planet from civilization's carelessness, and a preoccupation with the nature of apocalyptic thinking, a question mark looms over the very survival of humanity in its present state--a question mark that now overshadows the world.
Autoren-Porträt von Dominic Kirkham
Dominic Kirkham began a teaching career in 1968 before joining a religious order. Over the subsequent thirty years he fulfilled many roles as chaplain, teacher, parochial priest, and community activist. Subsequently, he moved beyond the church, and over the following twenty years took up a variety of roles running community enterprises and social projects. These experiences provided the background to a wide range of writing and a published work.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Dominic Kirkham
- 2019, 214 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1532661754
- ISBN-13: 9781532661754
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2019
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