The Guild Alternative

Arthur Penty

Published by The Saint George Educational Trust, 2006

About this Item

Unread and unopened! (Hard to list as 'New' when it's 16 years old).At the beginning of this century, G.K. Chesterton asked in one of his most celebrated books: What is Wrong with the World? In the dying years of this century, he would be forced to ask: What is Right -with the World? There can be few thinking people in the world now who do not realize that we stand before an apocalyptic crisis. Everywhere one looks, one sees division, disintegration, decay. No aspect of our lives is left untouched, be it in the temporal order or in the spiritual order. No one appears any longer to have any credible answers to the most pressing and vital questions of our age. One looks in vain to the clergy, to the politicians, to the pundits and thinkers of the ruling class for a semblance of a vision; they all seem content to utter platitudes and seek photo-opportunities. Arthur Penty was a man before his time and one courageous enough to face Reality head on. He was not afraid to say that something was radically wrong with the world; he was not afraid to say that our society had taken a wrong direction and that the only answer was to retrace our steps, however difficult materially and psychologically this might be, and set out on the path of Salvation.He knew that the world could only be saved by a wholesale return to those Christian beliefs and values which had made Europe the centre of world civilization. He likewise knew that the spiritual revitalization of our society went hand in hand with its material transformation: from a society based on Greed to a society based on Justice; from a society based on Economics to a society based on Morality; from a society based on material values to a society based on spiritual values.In this truly astounding book, he outlines where we went wrong; what we did wrong and where this path is leading us. Thereafter, he determines to show us what philosophy of life and what actions we must embrace if the world is to have any future beyond a lifeless and conformist world tyranny. This book challenges Ideas and Principles. It provides Analysis and Guidance. It provides the Philosophy and the Practice that this age needs. It makes no claim to infallibility, but it does claim to point us in the right direction. No honest reader will be left untouched by this book, for it does what so many tens of thousands of books published by the huge publishing corporations fail to do - it provides An Answer to the Chaos of the Modern World. 60pp. Seller Inventory # 880074

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Guild Alternative

Publisher: The Saint George Educational Trust

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Edition: First Edition.