Hugh Valentine reviews Sean McGrath's 'The Lost Road - a Search for the Soul of the West" - he writes: Sean McGrath’s position is that the Christian West has lost familiarity with the mystical and contemplative sinews it once knew. The cost of this is a loss of depth, a depth that bestows resilience in the face of life’s exhausting and dehumanising demands. This loss, he claims, is in major part the cause of the consumerist malady that is now global. He says that it is the Christian West that has inadvertently brought that about. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE