Dan Wolf

The Light and the Rod: Volume 1, Why Biblical Governance Works (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

We live in an increasingly secular world, a world where man focuses more and more upon himself. As a result, we are no longer educated in the things that truly matter. We've forgotten what brought us as a people so far in such a relatively short period of time.

The Light and the Rod examines two sets of ideas shaping how man chooses to live with others. They order society in incompatible ways. One brings success; freedom, personal liberty, progress, and peace. The other breeds failure in many forms; oppression, compliance, division, and unrest.

As a people, we must choose one. But why does one work and the other fail? The Light and the Rod's two volumes explore that question. The answers are there, because truth never changes. False ideas, on the other hand, must continually reinvent themselves to be accepted because they come from man alone.

Volume one surveys these two sets of ideas. We can find in them in the words of Plato, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. They display themselves in history; from Rome's fall, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and the experiment that is America.

The second volume dives into two additional sets of ideas with us today. Ideas we find in the words of those such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, and Muhammad. They claim to be new or different, but they are not. Their ideas are simply corruptions of earlier ones, and they lead to the same place as their borrowed sourcefailure.

This topic is timelier than I'd ever imagined. We see both sets of ideas being employed during the current Coronavirus outbreak. Not only across different countries, but across America itself through each governor's actions. China and Michigan; Sweden and South Dakota. Each different, but also alike. At stake are the basic notions society rests on; who brings order to society, what is law's purpose and scope, what is freedom, ownership versus stewardship, and how does each define justice. All these and more are at stake. If you want to be free, you first need to learn what that phrase really means. You will find the answers in very few places within our education system today. But the answers are there, and the kind of life you want to live depends on them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dan Wolf
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463745045
• Artikelnr.: 75709628

Autorenporträt

Dan Wolf's life can be divided into his career and vocation. By way of career, he is a successful professional with over twenty years' experience helping organizations solve problems. He possesses a rich mix of research experience, analytical abilities, and the capability of turning complex abstract ideas into something tangible. These same skills of research, analysis, and communication carry over to his writing. He deeply believes that things do not happen in isolation; that understanding different facets leads to a better understanding of issues.

He is a CPA with a Master's degree in Finance and two years of doctoral coursework in human judgment and decision-making. He taught himself programming, and has extensive experience in utilizing technology to design and develop business processes that support cost modeling, performance metric development, financial and operational analysis, and the distribution of information from those processes. He has used analytical methodologies to identify cost improvement, cycle time reduction, data quality improvement, and human performance management opportunities.

His vocation began at a young age with a penchant for history, but started in earnest with the events of 9/11. In trying to understand those events he has been led on a journey which has included learning the tenets of Islam, the contents and history of the Bible, and exploring Christian philosophical/theological thought related to our purpose. This purpose directly translates into how we should govern ourselves and is born out in the history of freedom's development. Future works will focus on these and related topics.

More articles by Dan Wolf can be found at the Virginia Christian Alliance website where he contributes on contemporary issues. http://www.vachristian.org/