A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

Gregorios, Paulos Mar

ISBN 10: 0791411338 / ISBN 13: 9780791411339

Published by SUNY Press, 1992

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• Title: A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791411338
• ISBN 13: 9780791411339
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit, he argues.

The powerful light of Critical Rationality emitted by the European Enlightenment is like the light of the sun. It is bright and helpful for seeing this world in detail, but too bright to let us see the night sky and the vast expanses of the universe. This "light too bright" eclipses the Transcendent. Dr. Gregorios invites us to appropriate the other Enlightenment of the overall-religious-cultural outlook in a new way and to relate it to the valid insights of the European Enlightenment.

About the Author

Paulos Mar Gregorios, currently the Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Delhi, served as President of the World Council of Churches from 1983-1991. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Enlightenment East and West; The Joy of Freedom; The Freedom of Man; and Science for Sane Societies.