Nominal Christianity is not enough. We can’t sustain the ethics and norms we take for granted in societies that have been formed through a Christian worldview, for the long term, without Christianity itself – this book calls for a full-blooded, believing ‘return’ to Christianity on that basis.

Fear not, however, this is not an evangelical screed about ‘revival’ — it is a solid case, methodically set out in order to argue from a philosophical and historical perspective why a return to Christian belief is the only way in which we can build a moral framework that will help to guide our future ethical decisions, because all of our assumptions – on which our decisions rest – arebased in the theology and understanding of humanity handed down to us by the Church.