Human Image World Image The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology

The revolutionary changes in mental outlook that took place in Western Christendom some three or four centuries ago, and that produced the modern scientific movement, are the major cause of the crisis in which the world finds itself today. Yet the terrifying consequences of the practical exploitation of modern science are usually attributed not to modern science as such, but simply to its misapplication and abuse.This book attacks such misconceptions head-on and at the deepest level. By setting the modern scientific picture of the universe and man's place in it against the pre-Christian cosmology, and anthropology, the author shows unambiguously how our acceptance of this picture has literally enslaved us to a vast collective whose ramification in the major spheres of our thought and action cannot but vandalize and desecrate both ourselves and the world we live in. Its thesis is presented with great clarity, eschewing sensationalism and appealing only to the disciplined intelligence and itscapacity for coherent discourSherrard, Philip is the author of 'Human Image World Image The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology' with ISBN 9780903880497 and ISBN 0903880490.