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In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he’d already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment and loss of meaning. “Underneath the efforts of a generation,” he wrote, “lay dust.” Even more troubling, Christians seemed uninformed about...

Aeschylus to describe the Greek stallions before battle, rearing up on their hind legs, pawing the air and snorting before they charged. Similarly, Jesus “snorted in spirit”: He was moved deeply in the sense of a furious inner anger. Entering his Father’s world as the Son of God, he found not order, beauty, harmony and fulfillment, but fractured disorder, raw ugliness, complete disarray—everywhere the abortion of God’s original plan. Standing at the graveside, he came face to face with a death that
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