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Author_Sean McGrath
autobiography
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Christianity and modernity
consumerism
contemplative Christianity
contemplative practice
cultural critique
ecological civilization
ecological ethics
ecological spirituality
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faith journey
modernity
mysticism
post-Christian society
religious critique
religious roots
secular society
spiritual crisis
spiritual forces
spiritual renewal
spiritual transformation
theology
West's decline
western culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781803412733
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this genre defying book, author Sean McGrath explains why we must look more closely at our secular society’s religious roots to counteract the destructive spiritual forces consumerism has unleashed on the earth. Modernity, the author argues, is a Christian heresy. It can only be corrected through a religious conversion of Christians, post-Christians, and their children. What must be recovered is Christianity’s contemplative and mystical attitude — but it must be recovered in a non-nostalgic way that moves forward into the ecological civilization that is coming to painful birth in our time. The Lost Road is, in part, an autobiographical narrative that recounts a life-long search for contemplative Christianity, as well as an ongoing interrogation into why it’s so difficult to find, sustain, and share.
Sean McGrath is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at McGill University. After five years in a cloistered Roman Catholic monastic community, he completed doctoral degrees in both Philosophy and Theology. He has taught and researched the philosophy of religion for over twenty years. He is the author of six academically acclaimed books in areas as diverse as psychoanalysis and ecology, but always with a contemplative theological approach. He lives in Holyrood, Canada.
