Christians and Culture: Lessons for Americans and Anglicans
Christians and Culture: Lessons for Americans and Anglicans
BY JOHN RICHARDSON
THE UGLEY VICAR
http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2012/11/christians-and-culture-lessons-for.html
November 9, 2012
Some time ago, for reasons I've now forgotten, I made a note to read James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to finishing it, and in view of recent election results in the United States and the Church of England, I'm very glad that I did. However, I think that Christians in both regions are going to find his lessons hard to accept and apply.
Hunter writes as an American addressing the American religious scene. Nevertheless, his conclusions can, I think, be generalized to non-American, and even non-religious, settings.
His core thesis is that the American religious right, religious left and religious radicals are all making the same basic error, and taking the same fundamental approach to changing the world, by buying into the political system.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
BY JOHN RICHARDSON
THE UGLEY VICAR
http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2012/11/christians-and-culture-lessons-for.html
November 9, 2012
Some time ago, for reasons I've now forgotten, I made a note to read James Davison Hunter's To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). A couple of weeks ago, I finally got round to finishing it, and in view of recent election results in the United States and the Church of England, I'm very glad that I did. However, I think that Christians in both regions are going to find his lessons hard to accept and apply.
Hunter writes as an American addressing the American religious scene. Nevertheless, his conclusions can, I think, be generalized to non-American, and even non-religious, settings.
His core thesis is that the American religious right, religious left and religious radicals are all making the same basic error, and taking the same fundamental approach to changing the world, by buying into the political system.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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