The Triad of Solomon

A brilliant student who one would think had everything to live for commits suicide; a respectable family businessman is a foul-mouthed football supporter on a Saturday afternoon; a young woman throws up a promising career to study under a guru in a Hindu Ashram. Yet someone who you would think likely to makes a complete change and becomes a lifelong devoted Christian: all examples of things of concern to both the ordained pastor and the secular counselor. It seems, as Paul Tillich indicated, that modern (or post modern) people are often beset with a sense of meaningless that leads to these states of affairs. Whereas perhaps, those of the classical world faced death as intangible, and medieval people were burdened with guilt.  Christians should deal with these problems of meaninglessness today, just as the initial preaching of the gospel gave the answer to death and the fresh discovery of the doctrine of justification by faith answered people’s guilt this book deals with apparently puzzling yet serous situations like these. Its core argument is that the cumulative ethical outline in the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament and in the revelation of Christ has correspondences in existential philosophy which is rooted more in the subjective passion of individuals rather than any objective arguments.