A World without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy
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An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roche’s A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianity—humorous, insightful, and uncompromising—takes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of the West: Marxism, Dadaism, Aesthetism, Empiricism.
We live, says Roche, in a world without heroes, a world which rarely challenges evolution as the “origin” of all life, an era enervated by materialism, in which to be Christian means to be stereotyped as narrow-minded, unenlightened and, worst of all, “unscientific.” Roche denies this anti-heroic vision of humanity in a penetrating study which encompasses four centuries of cultural, intellectual, scientific, and Christian thought.
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About the author
George Roche (1935–2006) was a renowned scholar and college leader. He had a PhD in history and worked as seminar director at the Foundation for Economic Education before serving as the president of Hillsdale College from 1971–1999. As the youngest college president in the country, he successfully raised the college to national prominence and changed the face of Hillsdale. He is the author of numerous books, including A World Without Heroes.
Robert Morris is the senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church based out of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Since it began in 2000, the church has grown to more than 100,000 active attendees. His television program airs in over 190 countries, and his radio program, Worship & the Word with Pastor Robert, airs in more than 1,800 radio markets across America. He serves as chancellor of The King's University and is the bestselling author of numerous books, including The Blessed Life, Frequency, BeyondBlessed, and Take the Day Off. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married 40 years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and nine grandchildren.
