Man and God in the World

About the Book

Man and God in the World is a book about the truths of our human nature and about our expanding knowledge and understanding of ourselves. All insight into human nature begins from the fact that the Lord god fashioned us in his own human image and likeness. The great medieval philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, working from the joint wisdom of the Judaic and Greek traditions, continued to ponder the nature of humanity and of our place in the world. Now, in this age, we witness the explosion of systematic knowledge brought to us by the social and life sciences, a cornucopia of knowledge about our nature. No one can tell what truths lie ahead of us as we explore that source, but the entire evolution of understanding is a single theme which is the subject of this book.

About the Author

Joel Clarke Gibbons, KC PhD, has worked in the investment business for nearly thirty years as a securities analyst, market strategist, and for the last sixteen years an independent trader in Chicago. Previous to starting his own independent local firm, Logistic Research & Trading Co., he was an investment strategist and head of government (bond) trading at the investment subsidiary of Harris Bank of Chicago. He holds two doctoral degrees: in mathematics from Northwestern University and in economics from the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago. In addition to his professional achievements in the investment and finance field, he is a noted author, with books on law, the economy, philosophy, and current events. His critique of the American economy, entitled Dysfunctions of the Welfare State (Transaction Publisher: the Rutgers University Press, 2010), is a practitioner’s view of economic policy which complements the studies presented in this book.