Analyzes the cause of the current "moral malaise" and shows how to move beyond today's cultural wars through revitalized commitment to religion

The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith

GUINNESS, Os

Religion & Spirituality

Free Pr

The American Hour is a searching assessment of the strength of the American republic at the end of what has been called the "American Century." In an incisive analysis, Os Guinness examines the ways in which the current crisis of cultural authority strikes at the heart of American identity. As he shows, this crisis has occurred because America's beliefs, traditions, and ideals - civic as well as religious - are losing their power to shape the private and public lives of countless Americans. He first charts this growing crisis in America's moral and cultural order, tracing its roots early in this century to the first open phase of conflict, which began to build in the fifties and climaxed in the cultural revolution of the sixties. He goes on to examine the subsequent conservative counter-revolution, focusing throughout on the impact of this crisis on three areas vital to the health of the republic - on American identity, as in the currently contested notion of what it means to be an American; American public philosophy, including the now controversial relationship of religion and public life; and American republican character, including our distinctive emphasis on the importance of the "habits of the heart." Guinness also examines the historical role of religion in American society and its integral function in American public life. He explores how religion came to lose its power as a vital shaping force of America's moral and cultural order, and he considers the consequences of this loss. He then establishes four scenarios that range from the continued decline of religion in public life to a resurgence of faith, showing how each possible outcome could affect American society in theupcoming century. Examining closely the recent controversies over religion and politics, Guinness concludes by setting forth a vision of how we can move beyond these struggles and provide America's diverse faiths with a revitalized and constructive role in public life.

American Hour

History

Americas

Free Press

Addressing both individuals and a traumatized culture, sociologist and popular Christian author Os Guinness confronts our inability to understand—let alone effectively respond to—evil, providing both a grammar and a strategy for a way forward.

Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror

World

Zondervan/HarperSanFrancisco

In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. 
Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.

The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on It

Parenting & Relationships

HarperOne

Classic treatise on spiritual doubt and how to overcome it by one of the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century. Rare, out of print edition.

Doubt (Lion Paperback)

Chariot Victor Pub.

Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, and my concepts of success?
First published in 1997 by distinguished author and speaker Os Guiness, The Call remains a treasured source of wisdom for those who ask these questions. According to Guinness, "No idea short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose and fulfillment."
In this newly updated and expanded anniversary edition, Guinness explores the truth that God has a specific calling for each one of us and guides a new generation of readers through the journey of hearing and heeding that call. 
With more than 100,000 copies in print, The Call is for all who desire a purposeful, intentional life of faith.

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose For Your Life

Thomas Nelson

In Time for Truth Os Guinness goes far beyond well-worn attacks on "political correctness." He shows how current assaults on truth - from the president down - have grave consequences for Western civilization and human freedom. Yet Dr. Guinness also argues that truth is far from dead - not only is it alive and well, but it is undeniable and far from inconsequential. Truth matters supremely, he says, because without truth there is no freedom. In fact, truth is freedom, and the only way to live free is to become a person of truth.

Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype & Spin (Hourglass Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Baker Pub Group

Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance

The buzz among evangelicals today is about relevance and reinvention, about new ways of "doing church" through revising, innovating, borrowing, mixing, and experimenting. Yet, says Os Guinness, in our uncritical pursuit of relevance, Christians have actually become irrelevant. By our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more in line with the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and significance. Prophetic Untimeliness addresses this issue by giving practical, constructive solutions for living with integrity in the midst of modern pressures. Guinness explores what it means to be both faithful and relevant, and how to be truly relevant without being trivial or trendy. Readers will be challenged to develop "resistance thinking," an approach inspired by C. S. Lewis that balances the uncomfortable truths of the gospel with the pursuit of relevance. Only by being true to Christ and living with integrity and wisdom will we meet the needs of a world that is hungry for some really good news.

Baker Books

Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don't Think and What to Do About It (Hourglass Books)

The inspiring stories of four public figures who displayed strength of character in the face of adversity, enabling them to change the world.

Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn

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