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NOVEMBER 25, 2019 Christ in the Waste Land CHILTON WILLIAMSON, JR. Thirty-six years ago a small slim book crossed my desk  at the offices of  National Review  in Manhattan. Its title was  The Restitution of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism ; its author, Michael D. Aeschliman. I slipped it into my briefcase and began reading it over a martini on the flight back to Wyoming. At home, I finished the book and wrote an enthusiastic review for the magazine. Now it is back in print in a third edition, this time from Discovery Institute Press in Seattle, with a new foreword by James Le Fanu, the British medical doctor and a columnist for the  Daily Telegraph , and other new material. It is good to make its acquaintance again. Aeschliman describes his aim as being “to recover, refurbish, and defend… [the concept of] the irreducible sacredness and ultimate value of the human person: person, not just thing; subject, not just object; end,...

NOVEMBER 25, 2019 Christ in the Waste Land CHILTON WILLIAMSON, JR. Thirty-six years ago a small slim book crossed my desk  at the offices of  National Review  in Manhattan. Its title was  The Restitution of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism ; its author, Michael D. Aeschliman. I slipped it into my briefcase and began reading it over a martini on the flight back to Wyoming. At home, I finished the book and wrote an enthusiastic review for the magazine. Now it is back in print in a third edition, this time from Discovery Institute Press in Seattle, with a new foreword by James Le Fanu, the British medical doctor and a columnist for the  Daily Telegraph , and other new material. It is good to make its acquaintance again. Aeschliman d escribes his aim as being “to recover, refurbish, and defend… [the concept of] the irreducible sacredness and ultimate value of the human person: person, not just thing; subject, not just object; end...

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