{"product_id":"gods-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\n\u003cbr\u003efashionable 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\n\u003cbr\u003eworld 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":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156814295278,"sku":"9780198242840","price":105.59,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198242840.jpg?v=1706222612","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/gods-world-and-the-great-awakening","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}