How Brief a Candle: Modern Man in the Insistent Dialectic / Fr. John Coony

 huge, unique, impelling study of what man has thought in the past about God and his moral obligations, plus what the scenario will be to our present age of disbelief and neopaganism - all done in a brilliant, profound historical overview. A unique thesis supported by a commanding view of philosophy and related sciences! Explores the Nietzsche-Toynbee alternatives of dominance by a master race versus return to theistic belief. The insistent dialectic is Mans perpetual interior struggle between moral restraint and freedom therefrom. The brief candle is the relatively recent re-emergence of theistic belief in society in general. Presents an incredible overview of Western thought plus a series of logic gates through which our minds can, and must, legitimately pass, toward the final correct view of mans position vis-a-vis God.