THE DIVIDED MIND

The Divided Mind: Contending Descartes
By S. C. Sayles

René Descartes sought certainty in a single thought - Cogito, ergo sum. Yet in turning inward to find indubitable truth, he fractured the unity of creation itself. From that moment, mind was severed from matter, faith from reason, and man from God.

In The Divided Mind: Contending Descartes, S. C. Sayles enters the courtroom of philosophy to examine the consequences of this fateful division. With the precision of a theologian and the insight of a philosopher, Sayles confronts the father of modern thought on his own ground - measuring the Cogito against the Logos, and the light of reason against the Light that reason cannot generate.

Drawing deeply from Augustine, Calvin, and Van Til, Sayles argues that Descartes' search for autonomy birthed the modern age of fragmentation - a world of machines without meaning and minds without rest. Against this backdrop, The Divided Mind proclaims the recovery of unity in Christ, the eternal Logos, in whom all things consist.

This volume in the Veritas Contra Mundum ("Truth Against the World") series stands as both refutation and redemption - a philosophical trial whose verdict reveals that truth is not born of I think, but of He is.
A daring work of theological philosophy, poetic in vision and precise in reasoning, The Divided Mind invites readers to rediscover wholeness - where thought bows again to the Word, and reason finds its rest in revelation.