Our Civilizational Moment: The Waning of the West and the War of the Worlds

Year 2024
Type Book
Genre cultural criticism
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For readers concerned with the future of Western civilization; a wide-ranging cultural argument, not a history of the West.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

The first of his late quartet: whether the West will renew, replace or lose the faith that made it.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 4 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 5 of 5
Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published in 2024 (a paperback is recorded from October 2024) under Guinness's own Kildare label. It asks whether the West has reached its civilizational moment, the point at which a civilization either renews the faith that inspired it, replaces it, or declines. Guinness argues that the decisive issue is the civilization's vision of ultimate reality, and he ends with hope rather than prediction. It is the first of a planned quartet of studies on the crisis of America and the West, followed by America Agonistes.

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Catalog IDW.ABTBME.8

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