Author: Ford, Dennis

In engaging, companionable prose, Ford explores eight approaches humans have used to infuse order and meaning into a seemingly chaotic universe: myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. Boiling each system down to bare essentials, he shows the differences between the religious, scientific and philosophical worldviews. Though the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many, Ford shows that the rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions. Now in paper. 320 pp.