No alternative

It is a measure of the quality of this book that it kept my interest to the end, in spite of a diagrammatic structure which I failed to understand and an idiosyncratic way of giving Bible texts that I found slightly irritating. Moreover I am specially glad that it held me, because the final chapter dealt very effectively with the often neglected issue of any credibly satisfying alternative to the Christian faith in facing up to life’s dilemmas.

Philip Hacking