Carpe Diem Redeemed, Os Guinness
Carpe Diem Redeemed, Os Guinness
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Carpe Diem Redeemed
Seizing the Day, Discerning the Times

Author: Os Guinness

Narrator: Os Guinness

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2019

Synopsis

You only live once—if then.

Life is short, and it can be as easily wasted as lived to the full. In the midst of our harried modern world, how do we make the most of life and the time we have? In these fast and superficial times, Os Guinness calls us to consequential living. In strong contrast to both Eastern and secularist views of time, he reorients our very notion of history, not as cyclical nor as meaningless, but as linear and purposeful. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, time and history are meaningful, and human beings have agency to live with freedom and consequence in partnership with God. Thus we can seek to serve God's purpose for our generation, read the times, and discern our call for this moment in history. Our time on earth has significance. Live rightly, discern the times, and redeem the day.

About Os Guinness

Os Guinness is an author and speaker living in the Washington, D.C., area. Born in China during World War II, Guinness left in 1951, after the Chinese Revolution. A graduate of the University of London and Oxford, Guinness is a former visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including The Call, Invitation to the Classics, and Long Journey Home. A frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Guinness has lectured at many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford, and has often spoken on Capitol Hill.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nitoy

Carpe Diem Redeemed is a book of kaleidoscopic convergence of different topics pertaining to time. From history, atheism, purpose, salvation, significance, truth to culture, wars, philosophy, anti-intellectualism, chronological snobbery, nostalgia, destiny all came together under one book and was ha......more

Goodreads review by Dee

Audible Plus 5 hours 56 min. Narrated by Os Guinness (A) Perfect book for listening. 🎶 Os Guinness's lyrical prose helps the listener to see time from the perspective of the One who existed before time and the One who created it! The last chapter (before a collection from various sources about Time)......more

Goodreads review by Kenzie

I never realized how much the clock impacted our modern world, and I also found it interesting to see different worldviews’ ideas of time presented. It wasn’t what I expected the book to be, but I think it will impact my view of time moving forward.......more

Goodreads review by Bob

Summary: A consideration of how, in our present day, we ought make the most of the time, to properly seize the day. The collection of epigraphs alone may be a reason to acquire this book. The book opens with fourteen pages of epigraphs on the subject of time spanning the gamut from Lao Tzu to Richard......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

I really wanted to like this book but it was quite disappointing. It's sobering, definitely; maybe even motivating. But…how do I put this? It's not very encouraging. Guinness does not come across as someone who believes that salvation is found in faith in Christ alone. He seems to believe that ethni......more

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