ANGELS IN THE ARCHITECTURE

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DOUG WILSON

The middle ages and Reformation began a conversation about truth, beauty, and goodness. Modernity and postmodernism tragically interrupted that conversation, and modern Evangelicalism has often simply echoed the hollowness of our modern culture. But we can do better.

The modern view of the world is empty and lifeless, nothing more than a bunch of matter in motion, with life by the thousandth chance emerging from chaos. The modern world, as a result, can only conceive of progress as more efficiency, more technology, more domination.

In stark contrast to this, Christianity presents a glorious vision for culture, and the vision of a world with truth, beauty, and goodness built into the very molecules of the universe.

Medieval and Protestant Christianity began a conversation about truth, beauty, and goodness, but secularism ended the conversation mid-sentence. Sadly many Christians, while continuing to believe in the Gospel have become just as blind to the beauty of the universe and the need for a culture in which that beauty is recognized and cultivated.

This book sketches a vision of Medieval Protestantism, covering such diverse topics as creeds, poetry, history, the church, feasting, and storytelling as they are to be found in the Christian faith alone.

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What People Are Saying:

“In the midst of a world seemingly gone mad, Angels in the Architecture demonstrates that this peculiarly biblical worldview has actually been lived out before—however imperfectly, by the medievals who have gone before us. It simultaneously holds out the promise that it may actually be lived out once again. Thus, it gives us a hopeful vision of a once and future age of light. And for that, we can all be thankful.” -George Grant, pastor and author

“This volume is a breath of fresh air in our polluted religious environment. Hopefully many readers will breathe deeply of its contents and be energized.” – The Presbyterian Witness

“[A] delightful apologetic for a Protestant cultural vision. . . . before you write off these two as mere obscurantist Reformed types, take care. I found that some of my objections were, on the surface, more modern than biblical.” -Gregory Alan Thornbury, president of The King’s College

“[T]his book cries out against the bland, purely spiritualized Christianity to which so many of us have become accustomed…. I highly recommend it.” – David Kind, Pilgrimage, Concordia Theological Seminary

 

Additional information

Weight 0.325 kg
Item Code

4487

Publisher

Canon Press

Supplier

CANON PRESS

Cover

Soft

Original Category

CL CULTURE & SOCIAL ISSUES

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