Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

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Crossway, 1993 M06 15 - 366 páginas

"The bookshelf next to my desk holds Christian classics and books I refer to often. Idols sits on that shelf, for Herb's lucid critique has been an invaluable reference for my own writings. It helps believers to understand the ideologies that undergird secular culture, and how they dramatically--and dangerously--differ from the Judeo-Christian view based on adherence to absolute truth." --Charles Colson, Prison Fellowship

"Well-written and highly readable... discerning and critical analysis of our times; a stimulating contribution." --Carl F. H. Henry

"This book has become a vade mecum for thousands of Christians who understand the cultural disaster of our time and are determined to do something about it." --Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-chief, First Things

"Now that Francis Schaeffer is no longer with us, Schlossberg is just about the most provocative Christian thinker around." --Harold O. J. Brown, Professor of Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"Years before anyone talked about an American 'culture war, ' Herb Schlossberg penned an acute description of the crisis of virtue that is the domestic issue of the 1990s. His diagnosis remains essential reading for everyone who believes that self-governing republic requires self-governing and morally serious citizens." --George Weigel, President, Ethics and Public Policy Center

"Thorough, provocative and especially penetrating. If you want to think Christianly about culture Idols for Destruction is must reading " --John H. White, President, Geneva College

 

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Idols of History
11
The Cult of Historicism
13
History as Lord of the Universe
14
Getting in Step with History
17
Inevitable Progress
18
History As a Polemical Device
19
The Historical Profession
21
The Myth of the Seamless Web
25
Nature in Control
171
The Riddle of the One and the Many
174
Prolegomena to Any Christian Epistemology
175
Idols of Power
177
God Marching on Earth
178
Only the State Can Save Us
180
A Moral Revolution
181
Our Father the State
183

The Christian View of History
27
Gods Action in History
30
Judgment
32
Judgment and Mercy
34
Consequences of the Christian View of History
35
Idols of Humanity
39
The Ethics of Antinomianism
43
The Function of Law as Ethical Foundation
47
Subjective Pragmatism
49
Humanitarianism
50
Ressentiment
51
Equalitarianism
55
The Misuse of Guilt
57
The Poverty Issue
59
Poverty and Culture
62
Poverty and Work
64
Poverty and Dependency
67
The Curse of Ontological Victimhood
69
The Poor Countries
70
Domination by Classification
74
The Exercise of Power
75
Issues of Life and Death
77
The Degradation of Humanity
82
The Irrationality of Humanism
84
Humanism and the Future
85
Idols of Mammon
88
Covetousness and Theft
89
The Alchemist as Thief
90
Inflation
91
The Role of Banking in the Inflationary Process
94
Politics and Inflation
96
Inflation as Redistribution
97
The Consequences of Inflation
99
Envy and Economics
102
Morality and Economics
106
Materialism
107
Redistribution
108
Redistribution to the Rich
109
Redistribution to Business and Industry
111
The Political Payoff
115
The Politics of Pressure Groups
116
The Power of the State over Economic Life
118
Bureaucratic Domination
121
Price Controls
124
Autonomous Officialdom
126
The Failure to Invest
127
The Role of Profit in the Economy
129
The Onset of Poverty
130
Freedom and Coercion
133
The Evasion of Evil
135
The Failure of Mammon
136
Idols of Nature
140
Nature as the Whole Show
141
Science as Religion
142
Social Science and Philosophical Materialism
146
The Eclipse of Materialism
147
Determinism
148
Social Science as Ideology
151
Reductionism and the Sociology of Knowledge
153
Reason as Lord of the Universe
157
The Triumph of the Irrational
158
Assault from the East
161
Nature as Lord of the Universe
164
The Effects of Naturalist Irrationality
165
The Cult of Narcissism
166
A World Become Spooky
169
The Second Face of Janus
170
The State as Idol
184
Creating Utopia
188
The Rule of the Elite
192
The New Gnosticism
194
The Apotheosis of Power
197
ScholarsonPension
198
The Shepherds and the Sheep
201
Bureaucrats Politicians and the Exercise of Power
203
Khadi Law and the End of Justice
205
Power Through the Religion of the Schools
209
Individualism and Its Enemies
211
Inferior Magistrates as Countervailing Powers
212
The Family Under Attack
215
The Attack on Economic Resistance to the State
216
Freedom as a Vice
220
The Question of Totalitarianism
222
The Vision of Global Unity
224
The Irrationality of Statism
227
The Sacralization of Power
228
Idols of Religion
232
False Religion in the Early Church
234
The Conformity of American Religion
235
Loss of Theological Underpinnings
239
Humanism and the Church
240
The War Against Economics
241
Churches of the Messianic State
243
Theology in the Service of Revolution
245
Civil Religion and the Churches
250
The Checkered Church
253
Democratic Idolatry
255
The Kingdom Coopted
257
Consequences and Expectations
260
History as a Moral Universe
261
Foul Is Useful and Fair Is Not
263
Moral Man and Immoral Society
265
Moralism and Guilt in the Absence of Morality
267
The Mimetic Inversion
268
The Breakdown of Intellect
270
Religious Secularity
273
Manifestations of Religious Warfare
275
The End of Prosperity
277
A Society Feeding on Its Future
281
A Society Marked by Strife
283
Antinomianism as an Accompaniment to Decline
285
Ethics in a PostChristian Society
287
The Drive for Power Accelerates
290
Poverty and Power
292
The Onset of Judgment
293
A Society Transformed
295
The New Community
298
Prolegomena to Any Christian Metaphysic
299
Freedom and Responsibility
302
Prolegomena to Any Christian Ethic
304
Idolatry and Injustice
307
Society and Its Dissenters
309
Defying Mammon
311
Responsibilites of the Rich and the Poor
313
The Stewardship of Wealth
316
Unity Among the Faithful
318
Defying the Powers
320
The Preservation of Intellect
322
Christ Against the World
323
Toward the Triumph of Justice
326
Persecution
330
Embarking on the Great Adventure
333
Index
337
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Herb Schlossberg (1935-2019) was a historian and served as a senior analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency. The author of several books, he lived with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia, and has three grown children and nine grandchildren.Charles "Chuck" Wendell Colson (1931-2012) was an Evangelical Christian leader who founded Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint. Prior to his conversion to Christianity, he served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.

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