Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World

Short review:: I really do like several of Mahaney's books, but I think this one really missed the mark. There were some very good parts of it. But taken as a whole, the editorial decisions to focus on external sins (like music, media and how to dress) instead of internal issues of worldliness. Worldliness is both internal and external and focusing on the external creates a false sense of what inappropriate love of the world really is. The chapter on modesty was very inappropriate for the books. It was consciously focused on young women without any real understanding that lust (which they say they are trying to prevent) is a sin of those that are lusting, not a sin of the people being lusted after. This is a blame the victim issue. Then he went on a tangent about wedding dresses often being the most inappropriate thing that women wear and that all fathers should go shopping for wedding dresses to insure they are properly modest.

My full review on my blog is at http://bookwi.se/worldliness-mahaney/

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I was provided a copy of the audiobook from christianaudio.com for purposes of review.