The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization between Chaos and Transformation
Jan 2007 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Why have so many lost confidence and hope in spite of the progress of modern times? Why do even those who deny their despair run ever faster in pursuit of pleasures that burn all thought from their minds?
Distinguished Christian thinker Harold O. J. Brown argues in this incisive analysis that our culture suffers such symptoms because we have cut ourselves off from our spiritual roots. We are in the last stages of what the late Russian scholar Pitirim Sorokin called "a late, degenerate, sensate culture." Furthermore, this crisis of culture is too opaque to be penetrated by human understanding and efforts alone. Instead we must begin by confessing our need for grace and wisdom from above.
Brown shows how, with that confession, Christians may be able to point the way out of cultural despair. They above all people know the power of "faith, hope, and love." Hence the author can conclude that, "There are some indications that disillusionment with the fading favors of a rotting sensate culture is causing people to become receptive to solutions that are identifiably Christian."
Distinguished Christian thinker Harold O. J. Brown argues in this incisive analysis that our culture suffers such symptoms because we have cut ourselves off from our spiritual roots. We are in the last stages of what the late Russian scholar Pitirim Sorokin called "a late, degenerate, sensate culture." Furthermore, this crisis of culture is too opaque to be penetrated by human understanding and efforts alone. Instead we must begin by confessing our need for grace and wisdom from above.
Brown shows how, with that confession, Christians may be able to point the way out of cultural despair. They above all people know the power of "faith, hope, and love." Hence the author can conclude that, "There are some indications that disillusionment with the fading favors of a rotting sensate culture is causing people to become receptive to solutions that are identifiably Christian."
About the author
Dr. Harold O. J. Brown earned four degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School. He also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany, and the University of Vienna, Austria, and taught courses in Basel, Switzerland, and Yeotmal, India. Brown cofounded the Christian Action Council. He is the director of the Center on Religion and Society at the Rockford Institute and teaches in the International Seminar on Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1971 and from 1975 to 1983. After four years as a pastor in Switzerland, Brown returned to Trinity in 1987 where he remained until joining the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently the John R. Richardson Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary.
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