The 1960s – long hair, flowers and morality mash: ethical appraisal of the clash that helped shape today’s Western society
In die Skriflig
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| Title | The 1960s – long hair, flowers and morality mash: ethical appraisal of the clash that helped shape today’s Western society | |
| Creator | Zandman, H. J.G. | |
| Description | The 1960s will be remembered as a major clash that helped shape today’s Western society. Young people were breaking out of the moulds that had been cast by their parents’ post-war era. The conflict brought about significant social change all over Western society. Western man searched frantically for a new world, willing to risk the hardship of revolution. In a world full of confusing and conflicting approaches in terms of how to view man, the Bible has the clear answer: man is created in the image of God, and is, in this capacity, God’s vice- regent and image-bearer. However, the Christian church is by- and-large remarkably indecisive as the social conscience of Western society. The main thrust of the sixties was anti-status quo, anti-esta- blishment, anti-materialist. In the process of man’s self-deter- mination on either side of the conflict, great erosion of man’s greatest gift occurred: ethical distinction. The spiritual vacuum created by anti-establishment forces led to confusion and self- destruction. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-07-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ids.v43i1.215 | |
| Source | In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 43, No 1 (2009); 77-94 2305-0853 1018-6441 | |
| Language | eng | |
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