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themtj's review
3.0
Very good although hard to call it a classic. One must be well versed in Lewis and Tolkien to enjoy this. As someone who holds moderate interest in both it was difficult to follow at times. One thing is for sure, the space trilogy is coming up soon on my to-read list.
lazygal's review against another edition
4.0
This is one of those books I wish I'd read with a group of people - the ideas really need discussion and mulling over to sink in. Williams has distilled the ideas of Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkein on what separates humans from animals (and humans from angels/God), tackling the ideas of postmodernism/secularism and refuting them using examples from the three author's works.
My only quibble (besides the lack of reading companions) is that there was more on Lewis than the other two.
My only quibble (besides the lack of reading companions) is that there was more on Lewis than the other two.
neuschb's review
3.0
I wanted to like this book more than I did.
The author describes himself as a young person "wrestling with whether I could still believe the Christian faith in which I had been reared, given the failure (actually, to be more honest, refusal) of the Christians I knew to interact intelligently and responsibly with the problems of modern thought." I sympathize.
But ironically, I find myself wrestling with whether he can honestly perceive the modernist mindset from which he has written, given his failure (refusal?) to adequately (sympathetically?) engage the postmodern situation without sounding arbitrarily and alarmistly privileged. It seems (to me) to be a problem.
Or maybe I am the problem.
The author describes himself as a young person "wrestling with whether I could still believe the Christian faith in which I had been reared, given the failure (actually, to be more honest, refusal) of the Christians I knew to interact intelligently and responsibly with the problems of modern thought." I sympathize.
But ironically, I find myself wrestling with whether he can honestly perceive the modernist mindset from which he has written, given his failure (refusal?) to adequately (sympathetically?) engage the postmodern situation without sounding arbitrarily and alarmistly privileged. It seems (to me) to be a problem.
Or maybe I am the problem.
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