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Why do intelligent, disciplined, and morally serious people sometimes fail to recognise truths that later appear obvious?

This is the question at the heart of Truth and Distortion.

Beginning from the Christian claim that the human mind was created to recognise the order of reality grounded in God, this book argues that the central problem with truth is not the absence of information. It is the disruption of recognition itself.

Drawing on Scripture, theology, and the history of institutional failure, Wayne A. Ramsay traces the sequence through which distortion develops: internal interference corrupts perception, narrative stabilises that corruption, and institutions gradually reorganise themselves around frameworks that diverge from reality while remaining convinced they are defending it.

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ stands at the centre of this argument. The authorities who condemned Him were not villains. They were sincere defenders of tradition who had lost the capacity to recognise truth when it arrived in a form their system could not absorb. The resurrection did not merely reverse their verdict. It exposed the structure of the failure.

Truth and Distortion is a diagnostic work. It does not offer a programme or a prescription. It offers language precise, theologically grounded language for situations that communities, leaders, and individuals are already navigating: the collapse of moral recognition, the inversion of narrative, the moment when defending the framework becomes indistinguishable from defending the truth.

Includes discussion questions for individual reflection, small group, and pastoral use, an afterword by the author on the origins of the work, and a bibliography of works in conversation.

For readers of Alasdair MacIntyre, René Girard, Walter Wink, and Dallas Willard.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Truth and Distortion
• Podnázev: Narrative Inversion and Moral Recognition
• Autor: Wayne A. Ramsay
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 64
• EAN: 9798252372167
• ID: 51645407
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 100 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 3 mm
• Datum vydání: 16. March 2026

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