The Great Return
Jamie Franklin
- The
- decline
- in
- Secular
- Western
- morality
- can
- only
- be
- halted
- and
- reversed
- by
- a
- full
- return
- to
- Christianity.Many
- people
- have
- a
- sense
- that
- the
- Western
- World
- is
- in
- decline
- and
- that
- our
- society
- is
- fragmenting
- around
- us.
- Many
- people
- have
- an
- ominous
- sense
- that
- we
- are
- living
- at
- the
- end
- of
- a
- civilised
- age
- and
- are
- moving
- into
- something
- far
- less
- pleasant
- and
- humane.
- But
- fewer
- people
- understand
- why
- this
- is
- happening.In
- this
- new
- book,
- Jamie
- Franklin
- argues
- that
- the
- reason
- for
- this
- decline
- is
- because
- we
- have
- jettisoned
- the
- underlying
- belief
- system
- that
- gave
- birth
- to
- the
- Western
- world
- -
- and
- the
- Western
- mind
- -
- in
- the
- first
- place:
- Christianity.
- He
- argues
- that
- there
- is
- a
- logical
- and
- inevitable
- link
- between
- the
- decline
- of
- Christianity
- and
- the
- decline
- of
- the
- West.As
- our
- metaphysical
- commitment
- to
- Christianity
- declines,
- so
- does
- our
- commitment
- to
- the
- benefits
- that
- came
- to
- us
- from
- Christianity.
- Through
- captivating
- argument,
- he
- demonstrates
- how
- this
- plays
- out
- in
- the
- scientific
- realm,
- which
- has
- abandoned
- objectivity
- for
- dogmatism;
- in
- the
- ethical
- realm,
- which
- is
- eliminating
- humanity
- from
- its
- own
- formulations;
- and
- in
- the
- political
- scene,
- as
- it
- moves
- away
- from
- the
- democratic
- principle
- towards
- a
- neo-marxist
- influenced,
- nihilistic
- technocracy
- that
- threatens
- to
- eliminate
- human
- culture,
- distinctiveness
- and
- agency
- in
- the
- pursuit
- of
- a
- globalist
- utopia.In
- so
- doing,
- Franklin
- touches
- on
- contemporary
- political
- conversations
- that
- are
- exercising
- the
- public
- imagination
- such
- as
- abortion,
- euthanasia,
- transhumanism,
- and
- the
- rebirth
- of
- the
- totalitarian
- impulse
- in
- Western
- democracies.Only
- a
- revival
- of
- Christianity
- can
- reverse
- these
- trends.
- This
- book
- urges
- the
- Church
- to
- take
- seriously
- its
- own
- commitment
- to
- the
- metaphysical
- and
- ethical
- presuppositions
- of
- its
- own
- faith.
- But
- also
- acknowledges
- the
- great
- challenge
- that
- Christianity
- faces
- as
- it
- threatens
- to
- be
- overwhelmed
- by
- the
- rising
- tide
- of
- secular
- nihilism
- that
- may
- yet
- engulf
- the
- Western World.
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