Truth And Social Reform

A consistent theme in Vishal's writing is the importance that the Bible must play in transforming not only individual lives, but also entire societies. The great challenge of every civilization and culture throughout world history has been to find a source of meaning, a ground from which it can act. Some societies have looked to many local and regional gods. Others have postulated that life's goal is to achieve oneness with the absolute nothingness that constitutes ultimate reality. Still others have looked to esoteric philosophic and religious mysteries. However, each of these has failed to provide the basis for a lasting and ascendant civilization. But the only civilization that has looked largely to the Bible for its inspiration, the West, has been able to conquer human cruelty, hopelessness and degradation with such success that it has become the envy of the rest of the world.

However, as the West has become complacent in its success, it has looked away from the Bible to philosophy, science, and the mystical arts to explain its unprecedented ascendancy in the world. As its biblical center has ceased to hold, it has begun to look ever more urgently outside of itself—to Indian, Chinese, and African religious traditions—to find the center of meaning and action that Westerners perceive to be lacking in their lives. As Vishal argues in the books you can read here, the secret for which the West is looking can be found in the book that catapulted the West to the forefront of world economics, politics, and culture. While many have looked to the New Age, to money, to consumption, and to helping other people (without knowing why it is important), Vishal has argued again and again throughout his corpus that only the Bible can provide the answers for which the West is looking.