Arriving Where We Started
About this book
In "Arriving Where We Started" Michael O'Brien turns the clear light of faith on the decay of modern culture and on the origins of the decay in the spiritual bankruptcy of the West.Drawing on his experience as a novelist and a painter, O'Brien describes the rise and decline of the arts in parallel with the ages of faith and apostasy in Christendom. He remains fully alive to the extraordinary regenerative power of the faith and to the possibility of recovering the "sense of wonder at and consciousness of the splendour of existence".Michael O'Brien has examined the disintegration of the social fabric in 'Remembrance of the Future' and the crisis of the family in 'Father at Night'. 'Arriving Where We Started' completes a trilogy which sounds the tocsin for the Christian Civilization of the Western World. Taken from Justin Press