It's better than "pretty good", which is why I posted it as a thread four years ago:
The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline. But after the analysis of decline, it doesn't say anything different than Francis Schaeffer did several decades earlier:
| "...Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society. Do not take this lightly! It is a horrible thing for a man like myself to look back and see my country and my culture go down the drain in my own lifetime. It is a horrible thing that sixty years ago you could move across this country and almost everyone, even non-Christians, would have known what the gospel was. A horrible thing that fifty to sixty years ago our culture was built on the Christian consensus, and now this is no longer the case..." |
“But after the analysis of decline, it doesn’t say anything different than Francis Schaeffer did several decades earlier”
Well, I’m sorry to steal your thunder. I found it a fabulous article.
“Serious, believing Presbyterians, for example, now typically feel that they have more in common with serious, believing Catholics and evangelicals—with serious, believing Jews, for that matter—than they do, vertically, with the unserious, unorthodox members of their own denomination.”
Is the money quote.