The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

by Os Guinness

  • Year 2021
  • Type Book
  • Genre political theology
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For readers interested in the biblical roots of freedom and Western political ideas; a historical and political argument, not a commentary on Exodus.

Should I read this?

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

Exodus and Sinai as the Magna Carta of humanity, set against the French Revolution, in an argument about the future of freedom.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 4 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 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 by InterVarsity Press in 2021. Guinness reads the exodus and the covenant at Sinai as the Magna Carta of humanity, the source of a vision of freedom, human dignity and a covenanted people. He contrasts the revolution of Sinai with the revolution of Paris, the French Revolution of 1789 and its heirs, and argues that the future of freedom in the West depends on which tradition it follows. The book continues the argument about freedom and the American republic that runs through A Free People's Suicide and Last Call for Liberty.

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