ON all sides and in every direction, man’s knowledge and discoveries have increased beyond imagination; yet the world is full of tensions and fears unknown before in history. Luxury beyond expectation exists side by side with half a world starving. Enormous and spectacular buildings rise amid gathering threats of planned total destruction. Man probes further and further into the secret mysteries of life, yet has not himself learned how to live. Is there any sense in history? Has man, with all his powers, failed miserably? Has the purpose of God in creating this wonderful being been frustrated? Has evil won ?
THIS new and last book by Erich Sauer deals with these vital problems. All his life he had two loves—the spiritual revelation of God in the Bible, and the scientific revelation of God in creation. This book is the fruit of those twin loves. With that penetrating insight that made his former books so outstanding, he demonstrates the high purpose of God in and for man, the diabolical powers that encompassed his ruin, the renewal of that original purpose of God in and through the Second Adam, and the practical realization of man’s high calling through the redeeming and regenerating grace of God in Christ. It is a worthy theme, humbly yet worthily developed, setting against its cosmic background the history of the ways of God with men. In a significant closing section the author compares the Biblical account of creation with the discoveries of modern science.