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Guarded by Mystery : Meaning in a Postmodern Age, Paperback / softback Book

Guarded by Mystery : Meaning in a Postmodern Age Paperback / softback

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Clearly we have entered an era of heightened interest in spirituality.

The proliferation of books, music and paraphernalia espousing the way of the spirit is a striking phenomenon.

Everywhere there is a new willingness to admit that the categories of rational thought, the authority of science, are no longer adequate to the task of making sense of our lives.

A search for meaning has become pervasive. Equally striking has been the rise of experiential religion.

Evangelical and fundamentalist churches are the fastest growing denominations worldwide.

This is no accident, for they respond exactly to the failure of the modern forms of life.

The modern ethos, for all its technological prowess, is experienced as an abyss of misery and confusion.

The only way out is to leap over the entire modern perspective to locate oneself within the security of a divenely revealed faith.

The difficulty, according to author David Walsh, is that neither the new age religions nor the old-time religions have enabled us to leap out of the modern world.

The discovery of a source of meaning beyond that world does not automatically clarify all meaning within it.

Finding a way to link the modern rational order and a spirituality pointing beyond it is what this book is about. ""Guarded by Mystery"" is a contemporary meditation on a problem that has been at the core of the human condition.

It is intended for all who have been perplexed by the disconnection between the two worlds in which they live.

Walsh explains how their experience of spiritual openness is meaningful within the modern world.

He shows how that world is itself dependent on the same sources of spiritual illumination they have discovered within themselves.

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