ENERGY
LIFESTYLE FOR TODAY
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We are energized to thnk and ask about what it means to live the good life for the common good. We live in an instant gratificaiton culture. Exposed to so much daily confusion, we seem starved for guidance about what it means to enoy a truly "good life". We need to find insight on how to live with both personal integrity and social responsibility. We live in a culture that often appears to grant each individual license to decide what is right, moral, ethical or wrong, immoral, unethical in any given situation. Wisdom identifies the personal and communal virtues and values that common decency requires in a mature self and a humanized society. We have only one life to live. We need to do it well and wisely.
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We have entered a new era which many historians and theologians now call the "post-modern age" and many religious scholars call the "post-religious" and "post-Christian" age. For those who find that the structued forms of religion no longer supply an adequate approach to the exigencies of daily life, David Waite Yohn seeks to provide an alternative. This book provides a lifestyle of practical wisdom for living the good life for the common good in a complex world. It asks the reader to be constantly quesitoning, searching, seeking and strugling for the ethical dimensions of living. It is meant to stimulate internal reactions and responses in the reader which result in living wisely. It is not a book to be "read through"; but, it provides short and concise readings meant to stimulate reactions and responses in the reader. This is a book for a person who wants to think for herself or himself, and discover ways to negotiate daily life with wisdom in a constantly changing world.
About the Author
David Waite Yohn has spent fifty; years working as chaplain, pastor, counselor and professor in hospitals, prisons, law enforcement, colleges, universities, churches and a seminary. A graduate of Northwestern University and Yale University, he has written six previous books: THE CONTEMPORARY PREACHER AND HIS TASK, 1969 THE CHRISTIAN READER'S GUIDE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT, 1972 THE CHRISTIAN READER'S GUIDE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1973 THE GIST OF JACOB: FOUNDER OF CONGREGATIONALISM, 1982 SOULISTIC HEALTH: THE CHURCH'S MINISTRY OF HEALING, 1983, PRIMER FOR LIVING THE GOOD LIFE, 2001 David and his wife, Craig, live in Florida.