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C R WILEY
In this truly original book, C.R. Wiley shows that, although the family has become dislocated and pushed to the side by modern society, this wasn’t always the case. At one time, the world was not seen as a random assortment of time and matter, but as an ordered whole—as a Cosmos.
Because people saw themselves as part of an ordered whole, they also believed that they had obligations to the people around them. They were not just autonomous individuals, but members of households with unique duties to past and future generations. Words like “piety” and “religion” did not refer to what you did in your quiet time, but were more like the seemingly obsolete values of “duty” and “honor.”
C.R. Wiley illustrates these ancient values through the Roman Aeneas, and shows how this founding myth inspired people to things we need. However, he also shows how this myth failed and it was succeeded by a greater myth—the myth of Abraham and His God’s war for the cosmos.
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