The flight from God

Resource Information

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Label

The flight from God

Creator

• Picard, Max, 1888-1965

Contributor

• hoopla digital
• Lawson, Robin

Subject

• Apostasy
• Secularism

Language

eng

Summary

In this powerful classic, the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard argues that though the "flight from God" is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in an extremely dangerous situation with the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the age of faith, Picard says, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm faith. Gabriel Marcel says Picard is "among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind." The Flight from God is one of the most acute, and yet hopeful, analyses of modern man and society

Member of

• Flucht von Gott

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

233

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by Robin Lawson

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable