The Sensate Culture
Western Civilization between Chaos and Transformation
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Dr. Harold O. J. Brown earned four degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School. He also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany, and the University of Vienna, Austria, and taught courses in Basel, Switzerland, and Yeotmal, India. Brown cofounded the Christian Action Council. He is the director of the Center on Religion and Society at the Rockford Institute and teaches in the International Seminar on Jurisprudence and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. He taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1971 and from 1975 to 1983. After four years as a pastor in Switzerland, Brown returned to Trinity in 1987 where he remained until joining the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently the John R. Richardson Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary.
"A great contribution by one of the great Christian thinkers."
--Charles Colson
"'The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization Between Chaos And Transformation' is a probing work grappling with the reasons so many moderns worship the sensuous, the material, the merely colossal -- but still feel empty and shallow. Building on the work of the late Pitirim Sorokin, Harold Brown finds the roots of cultural disintegration in the abandonment of the spiritual dimension. The author shows how most societies have descended from spiritual values to a period like our own, when materialism and sensuality rule. The result will be not just apostasy, but revolution, and the collapse of civilization. However, this need not be inevitable. The profound connections 'The Sensate Culture' makes between Christianity and culture are accessible to every thoughtful person who takes seriously the crises faced by a world spinning out of control."
--Midwest Book Review