A Review of Impossible People. By Os Guinness
by Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch:
Os Guinness shot to fame when working with Francis Schaeffer early on at L’Abri in Switzerland, and with the publication of his 1973 volume, The Dust of Death. He has been going strong ever since, with numerous incisive books dealing with a Christian view of culture, society, ideas and politics, and the state of the church.
He always helps us to see the bigger picture of what God is trying to do in the world, and how he seeks to align his people with his purposes. His latest volume offers us more of the same, and it does not disappoint. And the big picture is this: the soul of the West is being challenged like never before.
At stake is whether the Judeo-Christian worldview and ethos continues to sustain and direct the West, or whether it gets beaten down, ignored and rejected, leaving a secularised West incapable of meeting the host of challenges it faces.
And the answer to all this largely lies with God’s people. Will they stand and be genuine counter-culturalists in these dark times, or will they capitulate, compromise and simply complain? The secularists are intent on ridding the West of its roots, and replacing its Judeo-Christian soul with one of their own making.
They look to be succeeding. The consequences will be enormous, and it will be the great reversal of what transpired centuries ago. In the past, out of an immoral, decadent paganism emerged Christianity which transformed the world and helped to bring in all the goods of Western civilisation.
Now the spiritual heritage and underpinnings of the West are under direct attack, and a new paganism is arising. In some 200 pages Guinness offers us plenty of detail on how and why this has occurred, how it is now playing itself out, and what are some of the likely prospects for the days ahead.
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