HUGH MONTEFIORE - The Question Mark. The End of Homo Sapiens. The Theological Lectures 1969, Delivered Under the Auspices of the Church of Ireland in Queen's University, Belfast

London England, Collins, 1969. First Edition, Binding: Softcover, Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0002156717 Hardback This book brings together the separate wrolds of the secular and the sacred. A theologically trained mind is brought to bear on scientific, technological, medical and sociological problems affecting the entire future of mankind. The result is to make religious faith startingly relevant, and to question some of the basic assumptions of Western materialism. The author collects together, with impressive documentation, the facts about man's alteration of his environment. This book, which ranges from Teilhard de Chardin and Pope's Essay on Man to Arthur Koestler, Konrad Lorenze and Desmond Morris, opens locked doors and releases fresh hope. It ends with an appeal to the spiritual leaders of mankind to complement the efforts of politicians and experts at the special session of the United Nations to be held in 1972 on the Problems of the Biosphere. 104 pp. Slight foxing to edge. Small old bookstore sticker to inside cover. Slight wear to D/J. Price clipped.