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Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times by Os Guinness; a Review

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Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times Os Guinness InterVarsity Press  PO Box 1400 Downers Grove, IL 60515  www.ivpress.com ISBN: 978-0-8308-3671-0; $16.00; July 2014 4 Stars out of 5 Re-ignited Resolution Some years back a fellow church leader quipped to me, “It feels like we are standing alone facing a spiritual tsunami!” It was a poignant statement, since it was just after the December 2004 tidal wave that hit Malaysia. His point was made. In the Christian Church in North America and throughout the West, on the left and the right, amongst progressives and pedants, it appears that more and more churches, ecclesiastical leaders and denominations have slipped their dock lines and drifted away from their moorings. On top of this, the social and political temperature has become increasingly frigid toward Christianity and Christian mores; with civil leaders, educators, mass media and health professionals progressively throwing overboard anything