A pretty conventional predictable Christian apologetic focusing on the Books of Ecclesiastes and Job and the Song of Songs. As is almost universally the case for similar explorations, the author seems a bit stumped by Ecclesiastes and resorts to some significant interpretive leaps and twists. To his credit, he at least gives it its disruptive voice and appreciates the problems it poses to mainline Christian theology. But basically, he cuts off a deeper investigation of this most difficult of biblical texts by declaring it a productive exploration of a basically failed theological enterprise.