The Flight from God, Max Picard
The Flight from God, Max Picard
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The Flight from God

Author: Max Picard

Narrator: Robin Lawson

Unabridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014


Synopsis

In this powerful classic, the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard argues that though the flight from God is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in an extremely dangerous situation with the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the age of faith, Picard says, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm faith. Gabriel Marcel says Picard is among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind. The Flight from God is one of the most acute, and yet hopeful, analyses of modern man and society.

About Max Picard

Max Picard (1888–1965) was a well-known
twentieth-century theologian and visionary.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Beauregard on August 04, 2019

Intuition without concept is blind. Faith is intuition without concept. Picard’s flight from God is mostly an argument for remaining in the dark and trusting in the certainty of an imaginary absolute without sufficient reason. The monster that makes the factory and destroys the economy and hides the......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on October 06, 2022

The perennial spiritual crisis of man is his flight from God. The distinction of our modern times is that this fleeing from God has now become so totalizing and so systematized that it penetrates and forms every aspect of our daily life and environment. Once men fled from God within a world of Faith......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on December 24, 2023

The flight is always there, and is as much taken for granted as the air we breathe. The great city is the place of meeting for those who flee.......more