Agree with Bill Muchlenberg's excellent review of Mangawaldi's book, except the wording "transforms individual human beings...."

Things are transformed inasmuch as one looks at things (or oneself) differently.

There is nothing new under the Sun. The only thing is new is the way we look at (or understand) things. For example: - gravity always existed. It was only Newton who put it into explainable, clear, and very useful equations.

Havent read the book but it looks like a ripper, if this review is anything to go by.

Edwin Judge's interviews on cpx are a great place for a well informed but simpler introduction to this topic. ( http://publicchristianity.org/library/person/Edwin-Judge/ )

Christianity no doubt helped develop crucial aspects of Western Culture to where they are, but I wonder how the future will pan out? Peter Kreeft asks the same question in his book The Philosophy of Jesus, page 118:

"No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option."

Nice quote, Trav. But it doesn't stand up to a great deal of scrutiny.

>>"No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option."<<

May be you could give an example of a culture that rejects moral relativism, and has survived. Or perhaps you might take a more positive approach, and point to a civilization that has not survived, due to its moral relativism.

Either way, I believe your argument falls heavily at the first fence - the one that says "fine words. But show me".