The Meaning of the West

by Don Cupitt

Today, Western culture rules the world, but understandings of what it is are oddly contradictory. The Vatican claims that the West owes everything to the Catholic Church, its oldest institution, but the European Union currently defines its core-values in purely-secular Enlightenment terms. Third-World critics attack the West for being irreligious and morally decadent, while at the same time they successfully demand Christian behaviour from it, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033404202X
• ISBN13: 9780334042020
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"