The question of ethical character (and its deficiency) has become a matter of lively public discussion in recent years and promises to be so for a long time to come---in private life, in politics, in business, in society. While the world tries to figure out how to restore character, it will not find better guidance than we already have in the Bible.
Fool: Identifying and Overcoming Character Deficiency Syndrome is a forensic, worldview-conscious study of the fool and folly as depicted in the Bible, especially in the Book of Proverbs. The message of author Garry Nation is that character deficiency (folly) is a vicious, predictable, downward spiral of destructive personal choices. Moral upbringing and ethics training may interrupt and temper it, but God's grace alone can cure it. Sometimes humorous, sometimes exasperating, sometimes tragic, but always engaging, Fool uncovers surprising insights into what makes us all tick---and how to fix what's broken.
Author: Garry D. Nation
Located in: College Station, TX
Submitted: December 11, 2006
Tell us a little about yourself. I am a minister, scholar, educator, speaker
and writer. I hold the B.A. magna cum laude
from Oklahoma Baptist University, the M.Div.
and the Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. I am a Fellow of the
Oxford Society of Scholars, and a full
member of the Evangelical Theological
Society and of the Evangelical Philosophical
Society.
I have served as a pastor and as a Christian
school administrator; am a former staff
member of Probe Ministries, International as a
ProbeCenter Director, and am the co-founder
and director of the Institute for Christianity and
Culture Studies.
I am also a singer, musician, songwriter, and
performer, and have appeared on stage in a
number of dramatic roles.
A native of Oklahoma, I currently live and work
in College Station, Texas. I am married and
have three children.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? The question of ethical character (and its
deficiency) has become a matter of lively
public discussion in the past few years, and
promises to be so for a long time to come. A
society oriented toward feelings has
awakened to the fact that character matters.
While the rest of the world tries to figure out
how to restore moral character, Christians
must return to the Bible for guidance.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and
instruction." (Proverbs 1:7)
Fool: Identifying and Overcoming Character
Deficiency Syndrome is a forensic,
worldview-conscious study of character. The
core of the book is a study of the fool and folly
as depicted in the Bible, primarily in Proverbs.
The message of Fool is that character
deficiency (folly) is a vicious, predictable,
downward spiral of destructive personal
choices. Sound moral training may interrupt
and temper it, but God's grace alone can cure
it.
Sometimes humorous, sometimes
exasperating, sometimes tragic, but always
engaging, Fool uncovers surprising insights
into what makes us all tick—and into what will
fix what is broken.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: An added feature is "The Book of Wisdom and
Folly," a collated arrangement of the proverbs
and passages exposited in the book.
Included as an appendix, this section in itself
is a fresh treatment of the subject that would
make the book worth the purchase for further
study.
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