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Vintage 1951 The Revolt Against Reason Arnold Lunn Sheed & Ward HC DJ Christian
Title: The Revolt Against Reason.
Author: Arnold Lunn.
Format: 1951 hardcover in blue cloth boards, issued with a tan printed dust jacket featuring abstract black line art and blue lettering.
Publisher: Sheed & Ward, New York, United States.
Publication details: Copyright 1951 by Sheed & Ward, New York, with manufacture noted in the United States of America.
Language: English.
Subject/Genre: Religion and spirituality; Christian apologetics; philosophy of religion.
Contents: Lunn analyzes modern opposition to religious belief and rational inquiry, treating themes of scepticism, materialism, and scientism. Chapter headings visible include an \"Introduction\" and sections titled \"The Ultimate Heresy,\" \"The Age of Naive Faith,\" \"The Propaganda of Scientism,\" and a concluding \"Postscript\" discussing the spiritual and political consequences of rejecting belief in God.
Interior: Text is printed in a single-column serif type with running heads and numbered chapters; the Postscript section shown is paginated to at least page 251.
Special attributes: Mid-twentieth-century Sheed & Ward hardcover edition of Arnold Lunn\'s work of Christian apologetics, published in New York in 1951 and offered with its original dust jacket.
Condition: Dust jacket shows overall age toning and handling wear with rubbing, surface scuffs, and multiple edge tears and chips, especially at the spine ends and along the top edges, plus small nicks at the corners; it is enclosed in a clear protective cover secured with tape along the edges. Blue cloth boards underneath have light rubbing and a few small spots at the spine ends and board edges. Page-block edges are uniformly age-toned with some dust soiling and a few small stains. Interior pages in the sections shown are evenly toned but clean and fully legible, with a few small pen marks in the outer margins and without extensive underlining or highlighting in the pages photographed. Binding is square and secure in the openings shown.
