Os Guinness
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Os Guinness on The Future of Freedom
Are human beings born innocent or corrupt? Do we have the ability to create a perfect world, or is that impossible? Those drawing on Enlightenment assumptions assert that man is born pure, and that corruption comes through outside forces. In this view, utopia becomes achievable to the extent that we eliminate all sources of corruption. […]
Violence, Revolution & the Quest for Utopia
In response to the racial violence that he had witnessed back in the sixties, Os Guinness wrote that “Violence may be pragmatically successful in overturning an existing order that is corrupt, but it is utopian to imagine that the next order will be free of all such problems. All men are fallen.” He went on […]
The Impact of the Sixties Counterculture
“No one can understand the present crisis in the United States and the West without understanding the sixties.” So writes Os Guinness in the preface to a new edition of The Dust of Death, which he first wrote almost 50 years ago. On this program, Shane Rosenthal talks with Os about many of the themes […]
Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times By Os Guinness
Is the rise of secularism in the West about to usher in a new “Dark Age”? What will the future of Christianity be like in such a world? Is there anything we can do to prevent this bleak future from occurring? The rise of secularism and the fall of Christian influence are topics of great […]
Renaissance
At the very time that many Christians have shifted their focus from the unchanging gospel to the transformation of culture, countless churches have been transformed in the name of relevance into Christian entertainment centers with motivational speakers. So are we actually changing the culture, or are we being changed by it? Is cultural transformation something […]
