- Modern Philosophy, History, Faith and reason, History of doctrines
Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and spare.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Francis A. Schaeffer
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Inter-Varsity Press, InterVarsity Press, IVP Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780830834051
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“The origin of modern man could be traced back to several periods.”
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