The Heresy of Heresies
Author | : Timothy M. Mosteller |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2021-10-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781725255753 |
ISBN-13 | : 1725255758 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.