Meltdown: Making sense of a culture in crisis

by Marcus Honeysett

Our prevailing culture, with its absence of certainties, is a haven for a vast diversity of views and theories, opinions and life-style choices. Common to all this diversity is a rejection of the received wisdom on the past about who we are and what kind of world we live in. Marcus Honeysett takes us through the enormous upheavals of our culture, providing a reliable guide to a Christian response both in theory and in practical and moral living. Without such a response, he argues, we are condemned to be shaped by our world, rather than shaping it for Christ.

Genres: Theology

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2002

Reviews

[Ian Rees · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very readable. The first 5 chapters are especially helpful as they engage with particular aspects of postmodernity, its belief systems that have caused the intellectual meltdown and how to approach them from a Christian point-of-view. I did wonder sometimes whether he felt that postmodernity was the only threat to a Christian worldview - what about modernity and its worldview that the western church in particular has swallowed? But he is trying to deal with more recent developments and he does so very clearly. Recommended.

One note for 2013: the book was written in 2003 so I wonder how much the views he describes have moved on. No mention of Facebook or Twitter, for instance, and their effect on how people see themselves.

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I expected the book to be...