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Loading... The Question of Godby Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. DVD, PBS   sjmonson | Jul 30, 2008 |  A comparison of the worldviews of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. A PBS series was based upon this book. This was great, it was fascinating to compare two of the great formative minds of the Post-Modern era. Was quite clearly biased towards Lewis (that is good), but the author is a psychologist and has a deep understanding of freud and apprecation of psychoanalysis. Quite a brilliant work of apology for the Christian faith as a possible solution to a thinking man's issues in life. tkraft | Feb 12, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0743202376, Hardcover)One way of learning the difference between the sheep and the goats, according to Armand M. Nicholi Jr., is to look at the lives of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis side by side. The Question of God is based on Nicholi's popular Harvard course comparing the two men and their worldviews. Lewis represents "the spiritual worldview, rooted primarily in ancient Israel, with its emphasis on moral truth and right conduct and its motto of Thus saith the Lord"; Freud represents "the materialist ... worldview, rooted in ancient Greece, with its emphasis on reason and acquisition of knowledge and its motto What says Nature?" Nicholi believes that everyone embraces some form of one of these worldviews, and The Question of God helps readers figure out which camp they're in. For the most part, this book remains neutral on the question of who's right and who's wrong. Nevertheless, The Question of God does give Lewis the last word. --Michael Joseph Gross(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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