A Light Too Bright The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations (S U N Y Series in Religious Studies) - Couverture souple

Gregorios, Paulos Mar

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ISBN 10 : 0791411346 ISBN 13 : 9780791411346

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit, he argues.

The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paulos Mar Gregorios (1922-1996) was Mar Thoma (Syrian) Orthodox Bishop of New Delhi and North India and taught at the Orthodox Theological College in New Delhi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791411346
• ISBN 13: 9780791411346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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