A Time for Wisdom

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Mark R. McMinn

Paul T. McLaughlin

Templeton Press

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pages : 256
format : Hardback

Knowledge, Detachment, Tranquility, Transcendence

For readers who feel beleaguered by the incivility of the modern world, dispirited by its coarse rhetoric and toxic partisanship. It is an invitation to escape the shallow cacophony and restore peace and perspective to our daily lives. Written by two psychologists, the book takes the best scientific research on wisdom and integrates it with timeless concepts that have, for ages, guided troubled souls through life’s hardships. From this foundation, the authors present four steps we can follow to practice wisdom in the 21st Century: Receiving knowledge, Practicing detachment, Experiencing tranquility and Cultivating transcendence. These are profound and spiritual principles that can bring us immense satisfaction when we aspire to live by them.

In A Time for Wisdom, the authors show us how. They commend a course of action towards the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, towards calm and clear moral reasoning. They lead us out of the circus of contemporary life and show us a path beyond our petty self-centeredness. By journeying along that path, we can, like the great sages and scientists before us, rise above the immediacy of the moment and partake of the numinous and the infinite.

Mark R. McMinn

Mark R. McMinn is faculty emeritus and scholar-in-residence at George Fox University.

Paul T. McLaughlin

Paul T. McLaughlin has coauthored several published journal articles is currently a licensed clinical psychologist in Salem, Oregon.

Agence Schweiger