The Secular Squeeze: Reclaiming Christian Depth in a Shalow World

by John F. Alexander

The real problem with secularism? It's boring, says John F. Alexander. In this book he makes a startling diagnosis and offers a remedy: the refilling of everyday life with the excitement and mystery, the pain and love of Jesus' story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830813411
• ISBN13: 9780830813414
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: InterVarsity Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite Non-fictions

I found this book to be really fantastic and inspiring. Not only did it present some ideas that we seem to just be hearing about now (the embodied apologetic?), but it was well written with a lucid and enthusiastic style. Alexander got me all riled up when I read it the first time and I still go back now and then, ecspecially to chapter 8. Fantastic chapter. Occasionaly, I found the first portion of the book to drag, as I as already aware of much of the historical info, but it was necessary for showing part of his argument. And in any case the rest of it was great as a whole and in tiny tidbits. It was terrific. I don't really know what to say. The other person who wrote a review really missed the point of a lot of it, I think. Ecspecially the part about Julia Roberts and Arnold S. (which i won't go into, but it was about the value of stories and the story schemes and characters that are prevelant in today's western culture.) As well, perhaps the only part I didn't like was the title, which i found a little cheesy at first, but with a book like this inside it, who really cares? John! Keeping writing more stuff, it's wonderful, entertaining, and more importantly inspiring and truthful. Read this book. Period. The end.