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In God's World and the Great Awakening, Professor Clark's main concern is with the way we can 'turn aside' to the Truth from the normal delusions of self-concern. He restates a traditional, Neoplatonic metaphysics as the proper context for scientific and religious practice, and defends a serious Platonic realism against both scientism and anti-realism. Neither scientism, which identifies Truth with what can be revealed to the objectifying gaze, nor fashionable anti-realism, which equates Truth simply with what 'we' choose to take seriously, offer an adequate ground for our scientific or religious faith. The primary faith of humankind is that there is a real world which is more than an obsequious shadow of our desires and fancies, and this real world can be discovered through right reason. The defence of this faith requires a properly worked, Platonic metaphysic of just the kind discernible in Christian orthodoxy. The other two volumes are: Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989) and A Parliament of Souls (1990).

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: God's World and the Great Awakening
• Subtitle: Limits and Renewals 3
• Author: Stephen R. L. Clark
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9780198242840
• ISBN: 0198242840
• ID: 04523942
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 148 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. September 1991

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