In answer to the above review, which I have pasted below, I should like to inform you that I have also posted my answer on my blog no 117 http://www.evaulian-thebestoftheworst.blogspot.com/

Gandhi had a point when he said he liked Christianity, it was just the Christians he couldn’t stand. I think the writer of the article has decided that his view on Christ, the Church and the Bible is the only one that really matters and expects that a Christian Publisher like Thomas Nelson should adopt that view too on what is published or not. In this rigid conception of what Christianity is all about, the fact that there are many mansions in my Father’s house, seems to have been completely overlooked.

Know thyself and you will know God, is what the Saints have echoed throughout time. Just because Marcus Buckingham does not use the vocabulary that recalls hell and brimstone but one appropriate to the readers the book is meant to assist, it does not mean the book is against Christian ethics. The review claims that the secular and humanistic tone of the book is in contrast with biblical principles- maybe I’m dumb but I fail to see how the human is to be separated from the spiritual- after all Jesus went to great lengths to take on the physical aspects of humanity- it is not us who have become like Him but He who has become like us. That this element, the birth of Christ, has become the most celebrated feast of all times, is not simply a coincidence, I don’t think.

The review states that a biblical response to one feeling strong is when one is weak. Here again one important factor has been overlooked. If as Christians we are asked to keep lying low (I doubt it God had it planned to create us all introverts), and not achieve our potentials, then that really is a slap in the face of God, who, if I remember rightly is a hard master and reaps where he has not sown. God, like the master in the parable, expects great things from us because he has given us so many talents. But how the hell do we know what these talents are unless someone like Marcus Buckingham comes along and tells us how to find them?

And find them we must, for we are not to hide our light under a bush, nor forget that after death there is also a Resurrection- which some people would like to deny us of too.