A stimulating treasury for those who would like to consider the relationship between the wisdom books of the Bible (chiefly Canticles, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) and the stages of their spheres of life, with the opportunity for profitable self-examination and improvement.

The reader will journey through some of the highlights of the history of thought, covering such fascinating subjects on the way as how logic was twisted to make way for totalitarianism, how much truth is subjective and relates to the individual—never totally propositional—why people cannot be thought of as machines, how the theory of phenomenology casts light on the fall, and how living in the present is the best cure for the mentally wounded.

All this is centered on one of the most misunderstood thinkers of all time—Kierkegaard