Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education

Johnson, Phillip E.

ISBN 10: 0830816100 / ISBN 13: 9780830816101

Published by Intervarsity Pr, 1995

Seller Inventory # 0830816100-2-20839367

Synopsis:

Argues that the ideas of naturalism dominate modern intellectual life while theism is often considered irrational, and discusses how these ideas affect current controversies in ethics and public policy

Review: "Phillip Johnson is a scrappy Christian thinker who is taking on several important debates about law, education and science in contemporary culture. He strikes many sparks, and some of them illuminate the issues in helpful ways. Reason in the Balance will inflict a few burns, but it will also shed some light."--Richard J. Mouw, president, Fuller Theological Seminary

"Christians are beginning to leave their anti-intellectualism behind and recognize that ideas really matter. But with Reason in the Balance Phillip Johnson has moved this shift a quantum leap further. . . . No one who cares to understand the contemporary culture wars and be involved in their resolution can afford to neglect this book."--J. P. Moreland, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

"With rare lucidity and bracing urgency, Reason in the Balance makes a convincing case for the liberation of nature, and of human nature, from naturalism's claim that reality is less than we know it to be. In advancing this argument, Phillip Johnson proves himself a worthy heir of Samuel Johnson."--Richard John Neuhaus, editor-in-chief, First Things

"Reason in the Balance is a serious and original challenge to the secularist orthodoxy that still dominates the public square. Johnson's case in support of intelligent design . . . is credibly and comprehensively presented, and his ease with the scientific arguments of naturalism is particularly impressive."--Weekly Standard

"Johnson fires a major salvo in the culture wars with this sweeping critique of the reigning materialist philosophy."--Publishers Weekly

"There are plenty of critics of 'Godless science, ' but few are more intelligent (or better writers) than Johnson."--Booklist

"In a brilliantly controversial polemic, Johnson fires an intellectual broadside against what he sees as the marginalization of theism in public life and explores its implications for society and religion. . . . Well argued and astute, this critical work makes an exciting contribution to contemporary scientific and cultural debate."--Kirkus Reviews

"No scholar has more courageously and more competently challenged the reigning naturalistic presupposition and antisupernatural hostility that dominate contemporary science. Darwinian evolutionists have been unable to ignore him--and more significantly--unable to refute him."--Carl F. H. Henry, in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

"What distinguishes Johnson is his penetrating understanding of science and its limits. For that reason, he stands in the great tradition of Blake and Swift, companion skeptics of Enlightenment hype."--Commonweal

"Phillip Johnson is an author who is simply to be read, and closely studied, by all who wish to understand the forces that actually govern the intellectual world in the United States today."--Dallas Willard, professor of philosophy, University of Southern California

Bibliographic Details

Title: Reason in the Balance: The Case Against ...
Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good