This book was a bit difficult in that it is dated by the topic covered. I feel that the subject that Schaeffer is writing to address has come and gone and we are currently in the aftermath of what was then the approaching postmodern relativism. In that sense, this book was difficult to get into. In another sense this exists for more the intellectual Christian than possibly the ordinary. The first half of the book is a struggle to get to and it's hard to see where it's coming from or what its point is.

At about page 100, Schaeffer finally comes to the point. Essentially, he's laid the postmodern relativist point of view down and now he's contrasting where that philosophical world view fails. Then launches into why the Christian world view if superior. On a scale from easy to very hard philosophically - it ranges in the middle to upper middle. From a utility point of view from, say, between Jason Lyle and Van Till - this is about upper middle. There are some suggestions but it almost seems that we're fighting past the point Schaeffer is talking about and we're having to take a new approach now that postmodernism has become very popular for people to ascribe to.

It's an ok book but hard to get into with some words of warning from the past that would help us today. Such as - become honest apologetics with a clear Biblical world view expressed in Christ's love. Final Grade - D+