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Charles Le Gai Eaton

    Charles Le Gai Eaton è stato un diplomatico e autore britannico la cui opera si addentra nell'esplorazione dell'Islam per un pubblico occidentale. I suoi scritti spesso affrontano la tradizione islamica nel contesto del mondo moderno, sostenendo lo sviluppo di una distinta identità islamica britannica. L'approccio di Eaton è caratterizzato da una profonda comprensione dei temi religiosi, presentati in modo accessibile e avvincente. I suoi contributi ispirano i lettori a contemplare la fede e la cultura all'interno della società contemporanea.

    Der Islam und die Bestimmung des Menschen
    King of the Castle
    • King of the Castle

      Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World

      • 216pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      This book examines closely many of the unquestioned assumptions by which we live our lives, comparing them with the beliefs that have shaped and guided human life in the past. It begins with a consideration of how secular societies attempt to possess their citizens, body and soul and how, as a consequence, the necessity of redefining human responsibility becomes an ever more urgent imperative. The book continues with a presentation of the traditional view of man as 'God's Viceroy on Earth', with an eye to its practical implications in a world that has all but forgotten, under the pressure of mass social persuasion, that man must always be free to choose his own ultimate destiny. The author's thesis is a passionate yet incisive plea for the restoration of the sacred norms of religion, as against the debilitating and falsifying aims of a profane world-view based on no more than recent scientific and technological achievements.

      King of the Castle1999
      4,5