A Dandy Little Book!
In 2002, Peter Kreeft wrote a book entitled How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis . After having completed the book in a span of about four-and-a-half hours, this reviewer was quite surprised that this book has not received more acclaim among Christians (or maybe it has and he was oblivious). The author's premise was insightful; his arguments were sound; and his writing style was crisp and clean. In the introduction, Kreeft put aside all labels and claimed, "There is one this that almost everybody in America agrees about." That one thing, he said, was that our country, our society, our culture, "is in...'deep doo-doo.'" Thus, most of the text, which encompassed a total of 120 pages, was devoted to explaining the "doo-doo," and clarifying the reasons for its existence. Through six chapters, Kreeft argued that there is indeed a culture war, who the enemy is in such a war, and what the enemy's battle p...