Being a Christian theologian, Dr. J.C. Vaessen is interested in philosophical questions, and serves three goals with this... More > book.

First, he locates modern Western thought patterns emerging out of a specific underlying worldview in a broader perspective that also includes premodern (naïve) and postmodern (nihilistic) thought with their respective worldviews.

Second, he investigates the close relationship of these modern models of thought with various models of interpretation and gives some tools for interpreting reality or (Bible) texts that focus on this - in many ways transcendent - reality.

Third, he searches, in Hebrew patterns of thought for an alternative to postmodern nihilism.

The search for truth is as old as mankind itself. But what is truth? This question transforms the search for truth in a search for hope. < Less

The Secret History of the Bush Regime

From the Award-Winning journalist comes a much-anticipated collection of his... More > penetrating and prescient coverage of the Bush Administration.

Never has the American Republic stood in such a degraded state as it does today: terrorized, militarized, subjected to arbitrary rule, riddled with corruption, despised and feared around the world – and more exposed to attack than ever before.

How the hell did we get here? Empire Burlesque tells the tale, giving us the secret history of the Bush Regime – the backroom deals, the covert ops, and the monstrous betrayals of American principles that have gone down behind the pious rhetoric and sugary deceptions. < Less

Being a Christian theologian, Dr. J.C. Vaessen is interested in philosophical questions, and serves three goals with this... More > book.

First, he locates modern Western thought patterns emerging out of a specific underlying worldview in a broader perspective that also includes premodern (naïve) and postmodern (nihilistic) thought with their respective worldviews.

Second, he investigates the close relationship of these modern models of thought with various models of interpretation and gives some tools for interpreting reality or (Bible) texts that focus on this - in many ways transcendent - reality.

Third, he searches, in Hebrew patterns of thought for an alternative to postmodern nihilism.

The search for truth is as old as mankind itself. But what is truth? This question transforms the search for truth in a search for hope. < Less

The Secret History of the Bush Regime

From the Award-Winning journalist comes a much-anticipated collection of his... More > penetrating and prescient coverage of the Bush Administration.

Never has the American Republic stood in such a degraded state as it does today: terrorized, militarized, subjected to arbitrary rule, riddled with corruption, despised and feared around the world – and more exposed to attack than ever before.

How the hell did we get here? Empire Burlesque tells the tale, giving us the secret history of the Bush Regime – the backroom deals, the covert ops, and the monstrous betrayals of American principles that have gone down behind the pious rhetoric and sugary deceptions. < Less