The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving—deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends on moving beyond the modern age.Bob Goudzwaard and Craig G. Bartholomew have spent decades listening to their students and reflecting on modern thought and society. In Beyond the Modern Age they explore the complexities and challenges of our time. Modernity is not one thing but many, encompassing multiple worldviews that contain both the source of our problems and the potential resources for transcending our present situation. Through an archaeological investigation and critique of four modern worldviews, Goudzwaard and Bartholomew demonstrate the need for new ways of thinking and living that overcome the relentless drive of progress. They find guidance in the work of René Girard on desire, Abraham Kuyper on pluralism and poverty, and Philip Rieff on culture and religion. These and other thinkers point the way towards a solution to the crises that confront the world today.Beyond the Modern Age is a work of grand vision and profound insight. Goudzwaard and Bartholomew do not settle for simplistic analysis and easy answers but press for nuanced engagement with the ideologies and worldviews that shape the modern age. The problems we face today require an honest, interdisciplinary, and global dialogue. Beyond the Modern Age invites us to the table and points the way forward.
Tabla de materias
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Archaeology of Modernity
1. The Classical Modern Worldview
2. The Structural and Cultural Critiques of Modernity
3. Modern Ideologies and the Postmodern Worldview
4. Evaluating Modernity’s Four Worldviews
Part II: Transcendence and Modernity: Resources for Moving Beyond Modernity
5. Meaning from Outside: Reengagement with Religion?
6. Culture and Religion: Philip Reiff?s Sacred Sociology
7. Becoming Human: Desire, Violence, and René Girard
8. Modernity, Pluralism, and God
9. The Starving Christ and a Preferential Option for the Poor
Part III: Finding Ways Beyond Modernity
10. Engaging the Contemporary Crisis
11. Ways Forward for Economic Life and Global Climate Change
Sobre el autor
Craig G. Bartholomew is director of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK. He has written and edited numerous books, including Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition, Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics, Beyond the Modern Age (with Bob Goudzwaard), The Drama of Scripture (with Michael Goheen), The Doctrine of Creation (with Bruce Ashford), and a commentary on Ecclesiastes.
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