Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization

Year 2016
Type Book
Genre cultural criticism
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For Christians in the West asking how to stand firm under cultural pressure; a call to courage, not a political programme.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 2 of 5 moderate

A call to Christian courage in a West he sees as pressed by secularism and radical Islam.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 2 of 5
Sociological 5 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Published by InterVarsity Press in 2016. Guinness calls Christians to be impossible people, faithful whatever the pressure, in a Western culture he sees under pressure from advanced modernity and secularism and from radical Islam. His own site describes it as a call to courage and mercy. The book continues the cultural diagnosis of Renaissance (2014) and pairs it with a summons to faithfulness, and it belongs to the run of short books he published with InterVarsity from 2012 onward.

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