Debris - the remains of all things broken down or destroyed

"The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition (Plus)" of Huston Smith  How to judge this book ? The first half (from "Preface" up to "Part One - The Christian worldview") is a great read, with plenty of material to quote from;  but from Part Two - The Christian Story" onwards, the book becomes plainly boring... because it wants so much to emphasize the Love-aspect, while any reader knows that the Christian realities, throughout history, remain a mixed bag of Love and Terror. only from "The mind of the church" chapter onwards, which provides a definition of the foundational points in Christian theology, it becomes interesting again. . Quotes: p xxi Peter Berger:  "If anything characterizes modernity, it is the loss of the sense of transcendence -  of a reality that exceeds and compasses our everyday affairs." . We are seeing the culmination of a two-century transformation of  liberal theology into ethical phil