Book details

  • Genre:biography & autobiography
  • Sub-genre:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:116
  • eBook ISBN:9798317846954

Seeking and Finding

God, the Intelligentsia, and the Search for What is True

By J. Stanley Oakes Jr.

Overview

In this lively, philosophical memoir, Stan Oakes maps his intellectual journey against the backdrop of some of the most important developments in Western thought and culture-making across the last seventy years.
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Description

In this lively work, part memoir and part essay, Stan Oakes maps his own intellectual journey against the backdrop of some of the most important developments in Western thought across the last seventy years. Witty, incisive, and candid, Oakes is a keen observer of the points-of-view and language tactics employed to shift the center of so many cultural debates at the forefront of western societies. A must read for anyone looking to understand the currents beneath the surface which inform culture-making today!
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About The Author

J. Stanley Oakes Jr. is an author who has had a remarkable journey from resisting attending college during his teen years, to spending his adult years engaging with leading intellectuals and university professors around the globe—including becoming a college president himself for a short term. One constant in Stan's journey has been contesting at the fault line between the received wisdom of the past, including faith traditions, and the newer interpretations and approaches brought forward by those referred to as "The Intelligentsia" by Richard Pipes. Stan currently resides in the South, where he continues his pursuits of knowledge and religious debate via his writing.
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