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Title: Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy by David S. Awbrey ISBN: 0-316-03811-3 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A Timely, Intelligently Written Treatise
Comment: Awbrey's book really resonates with me. As one who knows the pangs of depression all too well, I appreciate our mutual interest in helping others make the journey to self-discovery and healing. He has made excellent use of historical and literary evidence of the cycling ages of melancholy. This wisdom, coupled with his personal reflections on what was missing in his own life (and, indeed in many lives) points us toward our need for divine truth. This book is enlightening and not at all difficult to read, even if you don't have a passion for philosophical and spiritual thought. I'd have given five stars if Awbrey could have brought himself to make more use of the Bible.

Rating: 5
Summary: If the pings and pangs of midlife strike, pick this one up..
Comment: Using both history and personal account, Aubrey creates a compelling perspecive of both midlife and the country/world in which we live.

I enjoyed the book very much.

Rating: 5
Summary: Reclaiming the American Soul
Comment: This is a book well worth reading if one is concerned about the health of today's American Culture. After a slow start, Mr. Awbrey zeros in on the core of values and meaning in late 20th Century America: self as the only value and meaning. The self has become the lead cultural actor of our time displacing community and country in the process while Post Modern philosophy tells us there is no hope of discovering meaning beyond the self. Mr. Awbery shows how Modernism has brought us to this point and Post Modernism has stranded us there. But Mr. Awbery is not satisified with this condition and calls on great thinkers of the past and present to rescue us.

A few of my favorite quotes:

"The 20th Century has not brought peace and social harmony through science and technology, but massive destruction, bloodshed and millions of atomized, disinherited individuals who deny any alligece to universal moral ideals or spritual beliefs."

"... the self ... has been devorsed from tradition, community, and morality. All those character forming forces are replaced by a fashionable appearance - a public-relations self."

"... many Americans ... perceive life ... as a quest for the 'self,' an almost mythological creature defined according to the latest therapeutic model of mental health or trendy psychological theory of consciousness that promises control over life while brushing aside ath moral anxieties that have burdened people for countless ginerations."

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