
Book Summary
A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice is a culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In The Listening Heart, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call from outside and above themselves. Conyers reveals with stunning insight how the quintessential institution of modernity dissolves one's ties to family, church, and clan. Conyers cogently argues for a restoration of vocation and the affections that constitute real community and thus what it means to be human.
Book Details
Book Name | The Listening Heart: Vocation And The Crisis Of Modern Culture |
Author | A. J. Conyers |
Publisher | Baylor University Press (Apr 2009) |
ISBN | 9781602581838 |
Pages | 217 |
Language | English |
Price | 1277 |