Jeffrey Polet

After Freedom

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"Mary VanderGoot expertly traces the diminution of authority and the weakening of social bonds to the paradoxical nature of freedom articulated by Baby Boomers. I have not yet read a portrait of the Boomers that combines so well sensitive diagnosis with intelligent advice, making this book a singular achievement, particularly since the shortcomings of the Boomers' world are becoming ever more apparent.”

Creation as an Introduction to Christian Thought

Theology

“In this book Henry Vander Goot has attempted something audacious: rescuing traditional Christian ideas of creation both from the secular evolutionists and from contemporary christological pieties. He demonstrates that both kinds of thinking, seemingly opposed as they are, have vacated purposiveness from the natural world, replacing ordered design with assertions of progress or salvific escape. This vacating has left us morally adrift. His book operates as a tonic against the gnostic impulses animating so much of contemporary thinking about the world, secular and religious alike, and in the process provides a framework for tackling one of the central challenges of the age: the integration of notions of self, God, and world that alone can lead to personal integrity.”