The security and confident happiness of childhood is for most people thrown into disarray by the experiences of the later years. We find the world is not what we expected. Instead it is as though we have been thrown into a whirlpool with a thousand threatening vortices. Why is our world like this? Are there some keys to understanding it, and to negotiating its dangers? How should we live? This volume traces the historical reasons for our world's ideological and existential chaos. It demonstrates that the cosmic bleeding giant, of which we are a part can only be survived by those who know and live the Christian gospel. The nature of that gospel is described so clearly that none need miss the blessings purchased by Christ for each one of us.