Beyond Belief (ISBN 1935052020)

Beyond Belief Is A Facinating Journey Through Time and Space:
Clint Gardner's Beyond Belief is a powerful, accessible and fascinating read. This book which is part memoir, part philosophical treatise, part theological revolution, takes the reader from a college classroom, to a bomb crater on a beach on D-Day, to meetings and conversations among amazing thinkers, leaders, and teachers from Russia, Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere. While calling attention to the tantalizing insights and theories of Gardner's college professor and life-long friend, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, it is also a moving story about how a student-teacher relationship can be sustained for a life-time, and even shape a life-time. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in considering a Christianity that is beyond any particular religious denomination. And, I recommend this book to anyone interested in challenges to philosophical materialism, or the biases that result from over-reliance on natural scientific methods as the only source of truth, especially for studying the non-material aspects of our experiences, i.e., politics, education, religion, history, psychology, and sociology. It is also an intriguing book for its references to and reporting of the relationships of some of the more influential thinkers of the 20th century, particularly if one is interested in the writings of people like Nikolai Berdyaev, Martin Buber, Franz Rosensweig, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Nazi resistance leaders, Helmut and Freya von Moltke. Congratulations to Mr. Gardner for completing one of his life-long dreams: publishing a book that brings his Dartmouth teacher's thought and passion to a broader audience.

A New Day is Dawning:
The Rev. Robert Pollard III, Palm Beach, FL, and Sugar Hill, NH A NEW DAY IS DAWNING. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (ERH) has been called "the Galileo of the social sciences." I consider him the most significant human and Christian prophet of our time. His vision across many fields of human endeavor holds forth the promise of furthering the progress of the human sciences as Galileo enabled the natural sciences. Clinton Gardner's new book summarizes ERH's thinking and presents it in order to make it more accessible. Gardner then shows the similar thinking growing in many parts of the world, including the thought of Berdyaev and Bakhtin in Russia. ERH is not sufficiently recognized in our day, partly because he was far ahead of his time. Gardner's book is a very important step in making ERH's vision available. So this book is an important step toward bringing the human story into its next great age, an age of spirit (Spirit), an age of more humane institutions, of truer, freer, more loving humanity. I am now ordering four more copies of "Beyond Belief" to distribute. I recommend that you read it, and if it speaks to you (as I believe it will), give copies to the appropriate people. Beyond Belief

Buy and read this book--today!:
This is an invaluable summary of history, sociology, and processes of dialog. Two of the most valuable parts are the Complete Cross of Reality--on one page!--and Clint Gardner's summaries of the major revolutions of the West. Each revolution processed through 4 statges: Imperative, Subjective, Narrative, and Objective. And these are aspects of the Cross of Reality, and the Cross of Reality is the process of dialog. The advantage for the reader is that when confronted with a situation, he or she can use the in-out-forward-back orientations to know where in space and when in time he or she is, and so can know better what to do. A short review such as this cannot give justice to the usefulness of the work. The work also has accounts of the places and times of the life of the author, and these show how the book came to be written over the decades. Buy several to give away. Chuck Hartman edencity@aol.com PS: I demur from agreeing with the panentheism, but as Rosenstock-Huessy himself said, the key to a university is to be a colleague, even though you do not agree--and first you shuld understand the other's position. Then you can disagree.