This book by Melvin Tinker I am going to deal with incredibly briefly. I know that its author is the father of someone I consider a friend so this may come back to bite me in the arse but I have to be frank. This book was written by an incognizant coward who was more concerned about farting out a book about "how to be a distinctive Christian in today's complex landscape" than they were about actually finding a fucking map or compass - and as such steams headlong into the culture wars in a critically uninformed manner. There is virtually no theological content to this book that you couldn't get from (a very conservative) Sunday school, and there is virtually no intellectual content to this book that you wouldn't find on PragerU (which is to say, not very much). It's 25% paranoid anti-intellectualism, 30% anti-LGBT rehash with zero context or point, and 45% zombified hand-wringing about "cultural Marxism"; for a book purporting to be about "how the West was lost" it is remarkably ignorant of history, geopolitics, economics, philosophy, etc. I genuinely feel that C.S. Lewis would be slightly sick in his mouth to know that a book so base & reactionary was written in the name of one of the novels he was proudest of. If you're not a Christian I guess you might read this for straw-man entertainment. If you are a Christian, I implore you to be better than to read shit like this.
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