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Is Man the Measure?

by Norman Geisler

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

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An academically respectable description and evaluation of secular humanism is available at last. The diversity within humanism receives full recognition in this book, as does the fact that not everything about humanism is bad from a Christian point of view. Indeed, the author continues, there are many emphases within humanism that are compatible with Christian beliefs, a thesis to which he devotes an entire chapter. Part 1 summarizes in turn eight prominent forms of humanism: Huxley's evolutionism, Skinner's behaviorism, Sartre's existentialism, Dewey's pragmatism, Marxism, Rand's egocentrism, Lamont's culturalism, and the coalitional form present in the humanist declaration and manifestoes. Emerging from these chapters are both the differences between humanists and the consensus that binds them together. It is this humanistic consensus, writes the author, that most radically conflicts with Christian beliefs and that is the number one problem in the United States today. After the chapter on the helpful emphases of secular humanism, part 2 details this movement's comparative inferiority, internal inconsistencies, religious inadequacies, and philosophical insufficiencies. The final chapter demonstrates that, while Christianity is consistent with the central principles of science, philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, humanism is not. There is no rational justification, the author concludes, for being a humanist. Dr. Norman Geisler is author or coauthor of some fifty books and hundreds of articles. He has taught at the university and graduate level for nearly forty years and has spoken or debated in all fifty states and in twenty-five countries. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Loyola University and now serves as Chancellor of Veritas Evangelical Seminary, in Murrieta, CA.
Is Man the Measure? and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an AtheistIs Man the Measure?

  • Author

    Norman Geisler

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    July 2005

  • Weight

    246g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781597522991

  • ISBN-10

    1597522996

  • Eden Code

    4881891

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