![]() She covers quite a bit of ground in this substantial volume. She clearly delineates “The global battle over God, truth, and power” as the subtitle puts it. In 18 meaty chapters she chronicles this war of worldviews, and demonstrates how very much at risk Western civilisation in fact is. Those familiar with her regular columns for the Spectator and other publications will find familiar ground here.īut this volume allows her to take her brief opinion pieces and develop them in much more depth and detail. In this volume the incisive British journalist examines in detail these and related threats, and highlights how successful these attacks have been in the past few decades. The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Phillips, Melanie (Author) And often these two forces find themselves working together in their assault on the Judeo-Christian West. Indeed, Phillips notes the many striking similarities between the Western progressives and the Islamists.īoth are a threat to the free West and to Judeo-Christian values because both are involved in coercive utopianism both demonise any dissent from their ideology and both have declared war against Israel and the Jewish people. Opposed to it are various contenders, chief of which are two main rivals: radical secular leftism, and radical Islam. On the one side is the Judeo-Christian worldview. ![]() In the West we are involved in a war of worldviews. ![]()
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