Crying in the Wilderness

In this authoritative study, David Smith weeps over a culture now all but lost to the Gospel that shaped it and suggests the approach that Christian witness might take in the 21st century. This new contribution to the debate about secularisation is marked by the pronounced pastoral compassion that informs the author's scholarship.David Smith captures the cries of anguish that can be heard coming from the culture - from secular novelists, painters and philosophers for whom 'God is dead' - as well as the despair experienced from far beyond the confines of 'high culture'.