Joy at the End of the Tether
- ISBN-10
- 1885767501
- ISBN-13
- 9781885767509
- Category
- Bible
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Canon Press & Book Service
- Author
- Douglas Wilson
Description
Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few aphorisms but little else. Douglas Wilson's fresh, lucid treatment of this wonderful book enables us to see that its message is not a confused riddle but an incisive indictment of "the wisdom of this world." We learn that what we call "modernity" is simply a term for men sinning in the old ways with new toys and tools. There is truly nothing new "under the sun"; man's problems today are exactly what they have been since the Fall. And the answer to man's problem is just as old, yet forever new - "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Steve Wilkins)
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