Steering Through Chaos: Vice and Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576831582 ISBN 13: 9781576831588

Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

In this thoughtful, probing study, Os Guinness leads readers in an in-depth examination of the deadly vices. The reader will better understand the classic notion of virtue and vice and how these ideas connect to the Beatitudes. Presenting the truth of the Bible in the context of modern society, other faiths, and 3,000 years of history, Guinness analyzes the corruption of ethics in academia and popular culture to reestablish the deadly seriousness of vice in an age of moral confusion. This is the second in a series of six Trinity Forum studies which combine classical and current readings with provocative discussion questions. The Trinity Forum has been successfully using this material for over eight years in their private leadership forums.

About this title

About the Author:

DR. OS GUINNESS' deep concern is taking things that are academically important and making them practical to a wider audience, especially matters of public policy. He has been involved in several projects in this area, including a BBC television documentary on the presidential election in 1980, a major public opinion survey, and the American Express study on the United States, America in Perspective. He is a senior fellow of the Trinity Forum in McLean, Virginia, whose interactive seminars led to the writing of When No One Sees. Os has written and edited more than fifteen books, including The American Hour (Free Press), Invitation to the Classics (Baker), The Call (Word) and Time for Truth (Baker). Former resident of England and Switzerland, Os lives in McLean, Virginia.

From Publishers Weekly:

Popular author and seminar leader Os Guinness calls readers in a very concrete way to "... lead an examined life in an unexamining age." Part of the Trinity Forum Study series, this book, intended as a guide for small study groups, offers the classical tradition of the virtues and vices as a framework for a very modern discussion about what kind of individuals and society we are becoming. Rather than contrasting the seven deadly vices (pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, lust, gluttony) with their corresponding virtues, Guinness takes an interpretive path less traveled, by contrasting the deadly vices rather with the beatitudes of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount. Thus, for example, the opposite of envy is mourning (envy being sorrow at another's good, and mourning, sorrow at another's loss). Each chapter focuses on one of the vices and its opposing beatitude, providing excerpts from literature, brief quotations and thought-provoking questions designed to spark discussion and debate. This book is not a great armchair read, nor is it intended to be. It is, however, a well-rendered, intelligent discussion-group guide that provides, in addition to an engaging set of readings and quotations, an opportunityApotluck supper by potluck supperAto enrich a national conversation about the common good and how to achieve it. (Aug.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1576831582
• ISBN 13: 9781576831588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Virginia Mooney