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The aim of this book is to explore the possibilities and limits of Comenius's greatest and most important work, General Consultation Concerning Restoration of Human Affairs. The humanity of people is not quite right, but not quite lost--that is the foundational anthropological assumption of the Consultation. How does Comenius understand humanity? What are human affairs? What's wrong with them? And the most important question: Can they be somehow corrected, improved, or restored?

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A penetrating analysis of human nature. A bold and all-encompassing vision to reform a broken world. A treatise of hope for our time. These are ways to describe the seven-volume Consultation of seventeenth-century Czech philosopher, theologian, and educator John Amos Comenius. The essays of Jan Habl's The Restoration of Human Affairs are a welcome addition to the sparse English commentary on Comenius's magnum opus. --Elmer John Thiessen, Medicine Hat College, emeritus Grounded in history but versed in modern realities, this book offers both a responsible and realistic critique coupled with sage advice. Readers will be empowered to intelligently respond to the challenges of their own emerging world, whether in times of calm or chaos . . . and to do so with civility and productive engagement. Highly recommended. --Duane H. Elmer, Trinity International University/Evangelical Divinity School, emeritus

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Jan Hábl is Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic. He has taught systematic theology and ethics at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Prague. He has authored a number of books and studies in the areas of philosophy of education, ethics, and pedagogy, including On Being Human(e) (2016) and Even When No One Is Looking: Fundamental Questions of Ethical Education (2018).

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