A Point in Time The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next

✍ Scribed by Horowitz, David

• Book ID: 107239727
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 104 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A Matter of Life and Death

New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz is famous for his conversion from 1960s radicalism. In A Point in Time , his lyrical yet startling new book, he offers meditations on an even deeper conversion, one which touches on the very essence of every human life.

Part memoir and part philosophical reflection, A Point in Time focuses on man's inevitable search for meaning--and how for those without religious belief, that search often leads to a faith in historical progress, one that is bound to disappoint. Horowitz agrees with Marcus Aurelius, whose stoic philosophy provides a focal point for the book, "He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything that has taken place from all eternity and everything that will be for time without end...."

Horowitz remembers his father, a political radical who put his faith in just such a redemptive future. He examines this hope through the other great figure...