Truth is forever. However, in history, humanity has never known it completely, let alone grasped it perfectly. A fog more or less envelopes every civilization from its dawn to its dusk.
On what John Calvin calls, “that winding road of God’s providence,” the truth occasionally breaks through, and a layer of the fog is lifted, for a while. For believers, the Reformation period with its subsequent cultural currents was one of those rare moments on the historical timeline.
Harry Antonides, a well-known Calvinist, has a sharp eye for the times in which we live, and for what they have become. Displaying a vibrant world-and-life view, in this landmark book he explains and analyzes culture in terms of what has happened to truth. With masterful and mind-full strokes, the author meticulously documents the mores of movements cloaked in fog that humiliate, with an aim to annihilate, the truth, luring us into a dark age of delusion, delivering its consequences.
How could this happen? In large measure because society is drowning in such dense fog that all we know anymore to ask—or care to care about—is, “What is truth, for me?” When culture descends into such pitch darkness, there are no limits to the chaos it can activate, enflamed by the incendiary manipulation of pundits who couldn’t recognize the genuine article if it hit them between the eyes. So, for example, you must decide if Antonides is right in showing how militant Islam and the radical Left have aligned to eradicate the two Satans—“first the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.” And whether society is getting blind-sighted into hitting a wall of means-to-end irrationality draped with utopian illusion.
All said, there is also Good News here. How truth, while humiliated, can never expire, but will in fact be exalted. That is, for all who truly know in part—pilgrims on the path to the New Jerusalem where He who is pure Truth is reigning over all and will reign forever. What Happens to Truth gets you in the know.
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