Fleeing from Reason

"Man is dead. God is dead. Life is nothing but meaningless existence and man is a cog in an absurd machine. What escape does modern man seek? Escape into irrational, illogical worlds, of fantasy, drugs, absurdity, pornography, etc. The search for a "final experience," even if it means madness and total rational and human alienation, seems to be the only way out..."

If this is the mindset of the 20th century, how did it originate? What meaning can the Christian faith have for modern man? And the challenge before us: how to overcome this legacy and make the Christian faith relevant in 21st-century society?

In this profound, original book, Dr. Schaeffer shows us the path taken by the arts and thought of Western man to reflect the dualism that began with Thomas Aquinas and became overwhelming after the Renaissance. Today, this dualism is expressed through the despair of rationality and the escape into a non-rational world in the hope of finding some meaning for life and the world.

This whole panorama appears with full force in literature, art, music, theater, cinema, television, popular culture, and social media. Dr. Schaeffer's book helps to clearly discern the true situation of modern man in order to present the message of the Gospel more effectively and within his own sociological and cultural conditioning. And it clearly and firmly outlines what the Christian stance should be in this regard.