Os Guinness on The Great Quest, the Examined Life, and Christian Hope for a Cynical Culture
Summary
We live in an age of deconstruction when the traditional ideas about truth, morality, and other foundational concepts are being rapidly abandoned. The deconstructionist project has no limits. Furthermore, it has no final solution for what will be built in the place of what was torn down. Therefore, people are inevitably driven to a life of emptiness and cynicism since they have no solid grounding to stand upon. My guest on today’s show argues that our culture must be challenged to live the “examined life,” a way of living that evaluates the worthiness of our culture’s dominant values and asks if there’s a better way to live. I’m glad to welcome Os Guinness back to the podcast to discuss his latest book The Guest Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning. We discuss the problem of our culture’s deconstruction cynicism, how the attempts to live without meaning are futile, and how Christians can be confident in the gospel’s power. Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Dust of Death, The Call, Fool's Talk, and The Magna Carta of Humanity. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons to the U.S. Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. He is a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and was the founder of the Trinity Forum. Check out the full show notes for highlights and resources from this episode: https://tinyurl.com/2p9x7uvv SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: PayPal: https://paypal.me/AaronShamp?locale.x=en_US Venmo: @AaronShamp Cash App: $AaronShamp –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Track: Perseverance — Land of Fire [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/Ue48lJLVA30 Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/perseverance –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/filterpodcast/messageWe live in an age of deconstruction when the traditional ideas about truth, morality, and other foundational concepts are being rapidly abandoned. The deconstructionist project has no limits. Furthermore, it has no final solution for what will be built in the place of what was torn down. Therefore, people are inevitably driven to a life of emptiness and cynicism since they have no solid grounding to stand upon. My guest on today’s show argues that our culture must be challenged to live the “examined life,” a way of living that evaluates the worthiness of our culture’s dominant values and asks if there’s a better way to live.
I’m glad to welcome Os Guinness back to the podcast to discuss his latest book The Guest Quest: Invitation to an Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning. We discuss the problem of our culture’s deconstruction cynicism, how the attempts to live without meaning are futile, and how Christians can be confident in the gospel’s power.
Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Dust of Death, The Call, Fool's Talk, and The Magna Carta of Humanity. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide from the British House of Commons to the U.S. Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. He is a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and was the founder of the Trinity Forum.
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