Hellfire and Lightning Rods

Frederick Ferre

Wipf and Stock Publishers

2018

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781532646256

Inglês

Renowned philosopher Frederick Ferré invites us to contemplate a new world to be constructed out of the debris of modernity. Hellfire and Lightning Rods displays a vision in which the dichotomies between religion, philosophy, science, and technology can be seen as too-narrow construals of a single, but polyvalent, organic world. Ferré wisely notes that the conceptual worlds of premodern animism, modern scientism, and biblical orthodoxy have major internal flaws and create immense practical problems. Yet, while they are largely unconvincing to persons who see the need for postmodern approaches, a successor to these views is nowhere near universally accepted. In that context, Ferré suggests that an important interim worldview that he calls multi-mythic organicism will help humanity recover spiritual dimensions now lacking.