Description
| Product ID: | 9780946621217 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | King of the Castle |
| Subtitle: | Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World |
| Authors: | Author: Gai Eaton |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Religion: general, Religion: general, Islam, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Islam, Islamic studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating King of the Castle examines closely many of the unquestioned assumptions by which we live our lives, comparing them with the beliefs that have shaped and guided human life in the past. It begins with a consideration of how secular societies attempt to possess their citizens, body and soul and how, as a consequence, the necessity of redefining human responsibility becomes an ever more urgent imperative. The book continues with a presentation of the traditional view of man as ''God''s Viceroy on Earth'', with an eye to its practical implications in a world that has all but forgotten, under the pressure of mass social persuasion, that man must always be free to choose his own ultimate destiny. The author''s thesis is a passionate yet incisive plea for the restoration of the sacred norms of religion, as against the debilitating and falsifying aims of a profane world-view based on no more than recent scientific and technological achievements. |
| Imprint Name: | The Islamic Texts Society |
| Publisher Name: | The Islamic Texts Society |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1990-01-01 |
