Mosaic Madness: The Poverty and Potential of Life in Canada

by Reginald Wayne Bibby and Reginald W. Bibby

This book interprets the turbulent Canadian times. It tells the story of a Canada that has pursued the goal of a just society, and has succeeded in providing individuals, groups and institutions with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773753990
• ISBN13: 9780773753990
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Stoddart
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pluralism and the Chuch

How can a society hold together when it makes little effort to reconcile competing and even contradictory positions? This is the question Bibby addresses in this follow-up to his first excellent expose on the religion scene in Canada (with great implications for America.}As he so correctly asserts: To attempt to assert truth in this envioronment is met with hostility, since its breaks the viewpoint rule, each one having just one important piece of the big mosaic. Madness! Certainly I felt that while ministering in Canada and do as well in the U.S., where now the pluarlistic view is gaining ground as the legitimate way to address the issue: redefine toleration to mean allowing everyone to assert they have the truth only for themselves, no one has it for everyone.Postmodernism reigns! This is well-written critique with amazing, relevant statements such as: "We have the audacity to applaud ourselves for being open-minded, when the reality is that our relativism has frequently made our minds airtight."