Streams of Confusion: Thirteen Great Ideas That are Contaminating our Thought and Culture

by Brad Scott

Paperback, 1999

Status

Available

Publication

Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books (1999), 320 pages

Language

ISBN

9781581340594

Barcode

15336

Contents

The "hydroelectric" power of unquestioned assumptions --
First Stage in the Slide Toward Relativism --
Man makes right, not God --
Every man possesses an innate moral sense --
Man is good by nature but corrupted by society --
Happiness is the measure and goal of a good life --
Second Stage in the Slide Toward Relativism --
Man, too, is an animal --
Material and economic causes alone produce social change --
Only slave and fools restrain their wills and desires --
Third Stage in the Slide Toward Relativism --
There is no God, only unconscious mechanistic causation --
Christianity is primitive, and even Christ is flawed --
Fourth Stage in the Slide Toward Relativism --
Life is meaningless --
Free will is an illusion --
Everything is relative --
Fifth Stage in the Slide Toward Relativism --
All we need is love --
A defense of Christian absolutism.

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