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The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he’d already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment and loss of meaning. “Underneath the efforts of a generation,” he wrote, “lay dust.” Even more troubling, Christians seemed uninformed about...

high aspirations of personality. If on the level of finiteness man is related to all other finite creatures, on the level of personality he is related upwards to God, before whom alone are his aspirations totally fulfilled and his being explained. For the Christian, freedom for the individual is never freedom from individuality, but rather freedom to be finally fully himself. Man’s alienation is moral, not metaphysical; therefore with the redemption made possible in Christ, man is liberated to enter
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