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The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way Paperback – January 1, 1973

by Os Guinness (Author)
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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    430 pages
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    Intervarsity Pr
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    January 1, 1973
  5. ISBN-10
    0877849110
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0877849117
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Intervarsity Pr; Trade Paperback edition (January 1, 1973)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 430 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0877849110
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0877849117
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Os Guinness

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Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford.

Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, and The Global Public Square. His latest book, Last Call for Liberty: How America’s Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat, was published in 2018.

Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of “The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012. Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area.

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Karla Perry
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2020
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This is Os Guinness’ first book. It is a fabulous read. It’s an in-depth cultural analysis of the 60’s. I loved reading it. I’m a huge fan of this author. He writes with great wisdom.
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Jared Abbott
4.0 out of 5 stars I hope this book makes you snort!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019
In The Dust of Death, Os Guinness proposes Christianity as a "Third Way"--an counter to the counterculture's secular humanism, mysticism, and psychedelia. It's interesting to see how in some ways he predicted the direction modern technology in our own time. His observations during the 1970s are still very relevant today. He doesn't quite take the idea of of Christianity as a "Third Way" to its logical conclusion--Christian Reconstruction--as others such as Rushdoony and Bahnsen did. He does come closer than many non-Reconstructionists.

Toward the end of the book he argued for an interpretation of Jesus's emotional reaction to the death of Lazarus, often translated as "Jesus wept." He argues that the root meaning of the Greek signifies that Jesus actually "snorted in spirit," and that Aeschylus applied the same Greek word for stallions snorting before battle. Guinness wrote, "He [Jesus] was moved deeply in the sense of a furious inner anger." I believe the Church will emerge as a true "Third Way" when they recover this sense of righteousness indignation at the curse of sin and death in their midst, and refuse to sit idly by, even as others insist that nothing can be done.
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pulling cheek swirl better shake up
4.0 out of 5 stars one of my collective summaries of my lifetime
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017
The text is all by one author who remains unknown to me except for what I have been reading when a philosophical approach to death needs the avenues of 392 pages of text followed by notes as references for each chapter on pages 395-419. The drug experience goes from social discovery to constant escape from the life others whose muse is a maze of competing in a rat race have experts on who s crazy trying to fit in as misfits kicked upstairs have a heavy upper hand. Intellectual death wish sweepstakes problems are taken seriously, and I like that about this book. By page 251, the author looked into a café in Kathmandu to see how tourists can end their lives as 24-hour zombies who had come to Nepal only to die.

Lately I have been equipping myself for life after the death of XP. Windows does not own me, and Advanced PCFixer is too paranoid about the pirates of a pismire empire stealing links to what never gets a proper web page. In senior housing I am among many fallen pansies who use the Community Room for events remembering the friends who died like a heart problem that did not get enough oxygen. Death has been such an issue for me, those who made a profession of being out for blood even tempt me with a deathly ratline or authority. Take your pick.
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L. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Cultural Breadcrumbing
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2013
In this book, Os Guinness lays out the history of humanist philosophy from its early beginnings with Greek philosophers in 500 B.C. and resurgence with the Renaissance, held in check for four centuries by the Reformation, its influnce during the Enlightenment and continuing progression up to the time the book was written in 1973. With advancements in technology and machines, man forgot about God culturally. The result being that God was declared dead, and it is from the dust of that so-called death that Guinness writes. He critiques Western culture's failed attempts to replace God via revolutionary counter-culture. It isn't only the counter-culture with which he finds fault, however, as he is also critical of the establishment with its materialistic ideals and demands for conformity where there is a lack of authenticity and alienation of the individual.

The author certainly did his homework and gives a lot of information in this thick book. I had never heard of the orange craze in Europe followed by a white phase which was inspired by a royal wedding. He also details the influx of Eastern religion and thought in the West and how the weaknesses of Western Christianity contributed to the cultural climate that gravitated toward the East. Three vital points of weakness which Guinness targets are (1) a compromised, deficient understanding of revelation due to a lack of biblical historicity and veracity (2) the modern Christian is weak in unmediated, personal, experiential knowledge of God, and (3) the church is focused on being a social club. Guinness advocates a third way involving re-formation.
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Trudeman
5.0 out of 5 stars Dust of Death: weighty, dense
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2002
This is a well-written, weighty and dense piece of work. One should read it several times to absorb the information it covers. Quick perusal not recommended. Guinness packs a ton of socio/cultural information and philosophical critique in this work. Those with limited background in philosophy, culture analysis, and theology might find it "boring" and "abstruse." But those who are well versed in philosophy and social analysis will benefit. One who wants to understand the impact of 1960s culture on the modern world-view should read this work.
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PAUL M VANDENBRINK
3.0 out of 5 stars after the dust settled...
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2000
Guinness is undoubtedly a perceptive cultural critic, but this book offered more than it delivered. Guinness begins with a concise and lucid history of humanism and then attempts to trace: (1) the roots of the sixties movement in the decline of humanism; and (2) the impact of the sixties counterculture on today's society. He draws solid conclusions, to be sure, but the depth of his analysis seems wanting. His conclusions are often vaguely stated, with little or no explanation. If you wish to gain a good knowledge of the intellectual roots of the sixties rather than simply a recapitulation of events, this book is valuable. However, in terms of penetrating analysis, Guinness, uncharacteristically, falls a bit short.
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