Top 20 Best Selling Books

Another BookVoices review for audio books you can listen using your iPod or MP3 player. See a href=’ http://www.talkingbooksdirect.com’Talking Books Direct/a for more reviews. - bra href=’http://www.talkingbooksdirect.com/title.aspx?titleId=5504 ‘ target=_blank img hspace=2 vspace=2 src=’http://www.talkingbooksdirect.com/images/sn5504.jpg’ style=’float:left;’ border=0 //afont color=’#000000′A book the likes of which we have not seen in nearly a century: a genuine moral/cultural bressay. And what George Roche has to say is not only profoundly true, it is thoroughly energizing and brinspiring.Midge Decter, Executive Director, The Committee for the Free WorldbrbriA World Without Heroes/i is a trumpet call for constructive engagement in the social crisis by those brwho refuse to discard the wisdom of the ages in a time of civilizational turmoil. Well written, cognitively brsturdy; it champions truth and the good in a transitory time when relativism tightens its stranglehold on the brinherited values of the past.Carl F.H. Henry, Founding Editor, iChristianity Today/ibrbrAn elegant essay recalling the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton and Muggeridge, George Roche’s briA World Without Heroes/i harshly rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our brmodern age. This ringing defense of Christianity, humorous, insightful and uncompromising, takes careful brand timeless aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will of the West and the faith of millions.br brMarxism, Dadaism, Aesthetism, Empiricismthe author identifies these as the intellectual hallmarks of the branti-heroic vision which threatens to dominate the West. We live, he says, in a world without heroes, a world brwhich rarely challenges evolution as the origin of all life and where natural selection is sold to the public as brif it were our only hope of salvation. Even the faithful are loathe to challenge these ideas, living as they are in bran era enervated by materialism in which to be a high-profile Christian means being stereotyped as narrow-minded, brunenlightened and, worst of all, unscientific.br brBut Roche denies the anti-heroic vision: life did not, he asserts, simply evolve from dead matter; to believe in brevolution without a divine intercessor itself is an act of faith. We cannot, says Roche, deduce a Mother Teresa brfrom the processes of natural selection. Human goodness testifies that man is not merely a beast distinguishable brfrom other species only by his higher intelligence. Moreover, he charges, there is a particular brand of science brwhich has been elevated to a religion. Science with a capital S, pulling off the greatest hoax of all time by brinvesting itself with an aura of objectivity it does not possess.br brThe product of careful scholarship and a lifetime of earnest reflection, iA World Without Heroes/i presents a brbroad and penetrating history of four centuries of cultural, intellectual, scientific, and Christian thought./fontbr clear=all

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