Joy at the End of the Tether: The Inscrutable Wisdom of Ecclesiastes
"Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few aphorisms but little else. Douglas Wilson's fresh, lucid treatment of this wonderful book enables us to see that its message is not a confused riddle but an incisive indictment of 'the wisdom of this world.' We learn that what we call 'modernity' is simply a term for men sinning in the old ways with new toys and tools. There is truly nothing new 'under the sun'; man's problems today are exactly what they have been since the Fall. And the answer to man's problem is just as old, yet forever new-'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.'" --Steve Wilkins, Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church