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This work describes how four thinkers - Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Camus and Voegelin - were able to confront secular messianism and find the means of overcoming it, so that what they eventually formulated was, essentially, a form of philosophic Christianity.

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This work describes how four thinkers-Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Camus, and Voegelin-were able to confront secular messianism and find the means of overcoming it so that what they eventually formulated was, essentially, a form of philosophic Christianity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars AFTER IDOLATRY - RECOVERING OUR FOUNDATION, Nov 25 2002

By	Piers Woodriff (Somerset, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (Paperback)

David Walsh's AFTER IDEOLOGY is a fantastic piece of work. It comes closer to being the book I have been looking for than anything I have yet read. It almost overwhelms me. Unfortunately, he attempts to do the impossible: Present the Answers about man which are available in theology and imperative for true human fulfillment and happiness - in the language of philosophy.
I understand his reasoning - most people have been led by the prevailing mentality or paradigm to think that theology is claptrap. But, there is no way the creature will ever be able to see and understand himself without submitting to the will of his Creator, without at least approximating that old "God's Eye View", which also goes by the name of "objectivity". Self-centeredness (anthropocentrism) looks good, but it goes nowhere. Without theology - the Queen of The Sciences - all we can do is stumble in the dark. Without theology we are "blind".
This will remain true no matter how brilliant the philosophers become. Walsh's book contains just about all the correct theological insights needed to achieve the freedom from ignorance we need, the "truth that makes one free". But, without the hard core theology, especially concerning The Problem - Original Sin - we will continue to spin our wheels. Of course I have not read anything he has written since 1990. I had better get busy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top Ten Books, April 10 2001

By	JLS "jls" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

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This is truly among the ten best books I have ever read ... Walsh is lucid, insightful, and truly prophetic ... incredible.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A moving, lucid call for spiritual renewal, July 10 2000

By	"tim_farrington" - See all my reviews

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David Walsh's book is far more than a Christian critique of modernity. Through his profound readings of Solzhenitsyn, Camus, Dostoevsky, and Voegelin, he makes a compelling--even thrilling--case that the real "solution" to modernity's systematic impoverishment of our souls' longing for transcendence must come not from the facile rejection of modernity's values but from an immersion and understanding of these values so complete that it bottoms out in despair. Only a purgative suffering of the human and spiritual emptiness of the various ideological solutions can allow us to open our souls to a fresh experience of grace--we must pass through the fire of modern atheism and secular humanism in order to burn free of the unrealities inherent in these systematic rejections of divine order. If the book has a fault, it may be that it is too optimistic about the inevitability of this process unfolding on a large scale; but hope is a forgivable virtue. This is a beautifully written, closely reasoned book capable of changing lives.

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