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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael HortonPublisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Imprint: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9780802877116ISBN 10: 0802877117 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 28 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Michael Horton illuminates our contemporary spiritual restlessness by examining its earliest roots in Western antiquity. Certain to become the authoritative history of our age-old quest to encounter 'the divine self, ' Shaman and Sage explains how the most creative moments in our collective spiritual journeys did not come through contrite obedience to a power ruling from above. They emerged instead from the hunger to experience a power pulsing from within."" --Robert C. Fuller, author of Spiritual but Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America ""Professor Horton might not be a shaman but he is certainly a sage. His is a book of immense learning and vaulting ambition, ranging from Bronze Age civilizations to Greek philosophers. While Charles Taylor and Carl Trueman recounted the rise of modern selfhood, Horton engages antiquity. In this copiously documented first volume, Horton offers a Plato and a Platonism that our college professors never told us about (and perhaps didn't know about)--not luminously rational but darkly mysterious. He links ancient humanism less to logical arguments than to incommunicable ecstatic experiences. Horton's readers will grow in understanding of the archaic roots of today's esoteric and New Age religions--centered not on faith, nor on reason, but on individual and private gnosis. Impatiently I await the forthcoming volumes to learn how ideas of selfhood continued to evolve, and what that might mean for us today."" --Michael McClymond, professor of modern Christianity, Saint Louis University" Author InformationMichael Horton is J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |