{"product_id":"spiritual-lights-in-benighted-times-harry-oldmeadow-9798892801249","title":"Spiritual Lights in Benighted Times: Fifteen Christian Outliers","description":"\u003cem\u003eSpiritual Lights in Benighted Times\u003c\/em\u003e brings together fifteen modern Christian thinkers-philosophers, theologians, monks and mystics, novelists among them-who have wrestled with some of the most urgent issues of our times. As the title suggests, being a serious Christian in the modern world is necessarily to be out of tune with the prevailing \u003cem\u003eZeitgeist\u003c\/em\u003e, at odds with the secular-materialist-technocratic worldview now holding sway in most parts of the world. Most of these thinkers found cause for deep alarm in this state of affairs. These short sketches are neither biographies nor overviews. Rather, they are, mainly, discursive and informal pieces that pursue an isolated theme or a single aspect of the thinking of the person in question. With one exception all of the featured thinkers spent most of their lives in the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. The author is well-known for his interest in Christian critiques of modernity, a theme that comes into sharper focus when the purview is restricted to this period. Other recurrent themes include the \"problem\" of religious pluralism, the timeless relevance of the perennial philosophy, and the place of mysticism in religious life. The book is addressed to anyone with an interest in \"Christian thought\" in any of its variegated and sometimes wildly divergent expressions. Included in this work are: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRudolf Otto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvelyn Underhill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA.P. Elkin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDorothy Sayers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBede Griffiths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimone Weil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbhishiktananda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Merton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHuston Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhilip Sherrard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartin Luther King Jr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Cowan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarilynne Robinson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlexsandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Oldmeadow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798892801249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Angelico Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Harry Oldmeadow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47040156107007,"sku":"9798892801249","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c56725e5-bd33-46cc-b0a2-00e31870faeb.jpg?v=1752753725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spiritual-lights-in-benighted-times-harry-oldmeadow-9798892801249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}