Faith And Delusion: The Spiritual History of the World; An Overview from the Perspective of Orthodox Christian Apologetics

Publication Data: Bloomington, IN: Trafford Publishing, 2011
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: viii + 231
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 14.1 cm × 1.3 cm
ISBN: 978‒1‒4269‒6953‒9

   
by Father Nikita Grigoriev

“This book examines from an historical perspective the battle of spiritual delusion and unbelief against real faith in God. The entire history of mankind can be viewed as basically Satan’s war against God, for the human heart. The primary weapon of the father of lies is, naturally, falsehood, along with distortion and unbelief. In order to survive and be saved in this terrible war of falsehood, we must arm ourselves with an understanding of that simple and pure Truth revealed to us by Christ through His apostles.”
—“INTRODUCTION”

CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1 Faith
Chapter 2 “In the beginning...” (Gen.1:1)
Chapter 3 The imagine and likeness of God
Chapter 4 The Meaning of the First Commandment to Adam
Chapter 5 The Temptation and Fall of the Proto-human
Chapter 6 Limitations and the Chastisement of Man
Chapter 7 The First End of the World and a New Beginning
Chapter 8 A New Earth
Chapter 9 A Special Nation is Singled Out
Chapter 10 The Church of Christ
Chapter 11 Christian Apologetics
Chapter 12 Knowledge and Faith
Chapter 13 War Waged Against the Church by Satan
Chapter 14 Rome Falls Away
Chapter 15 The Effects of Rome’s Schism
Chapter 16 The Fruits of the Schism
Chapter 17 Humanism
Chapter 18 Scholasticism
Chapter 19 The Fruits of Scholasticism
Chapter 20 The Reformation
Chapter 21 The Orthodox East
Chapter 22 The “Calendar Question”
Chapter 23 Th Spiritual Fruits of the Gregorian Reform
Chapter 24 The Renaissance
Chapter 25 Scientific Methodology
Chapter 26 The Cult of Science
Chapter 27 The Age of Reason and Enlightenment
Chapter 28 Deism of the 18th Century
Chapter 29 The Causes of Deism
Chapter 30 The Consequences of Deism
Chapter 31 Naturalism and Materialism
Chapter 32 The Threshold of Atheism
Chapter 33 The Embryonic Stage of Evolution
Chapter 34 Darwinism
Chapter 35 Evolution
Chapter 36 The Spiritual Consequences of Evolutionism
Chapter 37 Communism and Capitalism
Chapter 38 The First Half of the 20th Century
Chapter 39 The 1960’s
Chapter 40 Eastern Influence
Chapter 41 The Development of Technology
Chapter 42 The “New Age” Movement
Chapter 43 The Orthodox Church
Chapter 44 Ecumenism
Chapter 45 The Spiritual Delusion of the anti-Christ