{"product_id":"god-s-world-and-the-great-awakening","title":"God's World and the Great Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn God's World and the Great Awakening, Professor Clark's main concern is with the way we can `turn aside' to the Truth from the normal delusions of self-concern. He restates a traditional, Neoplatonic metaphysics as the proper context for scientific and religious practice, and defends a serious Platonic realism against both scientism and anti-realism. Neither scientism, which identifies Truth with what can be revealed to the objectifying gaze, nor fashionable anti-realism, which equates Truth simply with what `we' choose to take seriously, offer an adequate ground for our scientific or religious faith. The primary faith of humankind is that there is a real world which is more than an obsequious shadow of our desires and fancies, and this real world can be discovered through right reason. The defence of this faith requires a properly worked, Platonic metaphysic of just the kind discernible in Christian orthodoxy. The other two volumes are: Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989) and A Parliament of Souls (1990).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen R. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573431763005,"sku":"9780198242840","price":120.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198242840.jpg?v=1788522238","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/god-s-world-and-the-great-awakening","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}