A FREE PEOPLE'S SUICIDE - Os Guinness
A FREE PEOPLE'S SUICIDE
Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
By Os Guinness
IVP Books (2012) 224pp
Reviewed by David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 2, 2013
Freedom. Americans are in danger of losing it, says author and social critic Dr. Os Guinness. Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster, writes one of America's prophetic voices and cultural observers.
Guinness, a committed Anglican and the founding Senior Fellow of the Trinity forum, offers up that, "The ultimate threat to the American public will be Americans. The problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor."
Guinness argues that the greatest challenge to nation-states is not in winning freedom, but in sustaining it - which is becoming an increasingly urgent dilemma for the American experiment in ordered liberty.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
By Os Guinness
IVP Books (2012) 224pp
Reviewed by David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 2, 2013
Freedom. Americans are in danger of losing it, says author and social critic Dr. Os Guinness. Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster, writes one of America's prophetic voices and cultural observers.Guinness, a committed Anglican and the founding Senior Fellow of the Trinity forum, offers up that, "The ultimate threat to the American public will be Americans. The problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor."
Guinness argues that the greatest challenge to nation-states is not in winning freedom, but in sustaining it - which is becoming an increasingly urgent dilemma for the American experiment in ordered liberty.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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