A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS:
Trusting Again in a Cynical World
By Mark Meynell
Zondervan Press. 223 pages. £11.38
ISBN 978 0 310 515 265
Mark Meynell’s A Wilderness of Mirrors: Trusting Again in a Cynical World is a refreshing and brilliant apologetic, which should be read by anyone who has been entrusted with a position of leadership in God’s church.
The author’s insightful essay exposes a major flaw in contemporary apologetics: a gap in our defences, if you will. Evangelists and apologists spend considerable time dealing with objections to Christian belief. We defend key facts from sceptical arguments. Now, for Christians, faith simply means a deep personal trust in a triune God. Meynell’s salient point is that Westerners no longer trust anyone. The Western world’s ‘crisis of faith’ goes beyond incredulity towards meta-narratives or a hostility to Christian doctrine.
