The Post-Christian Age and the Gospel of Truth

The twenty-first century is rightly defined as a post-Christian culture in the industrialized West — a culture that is no longer bound by the truth claims and moral wisdom of the Christian tradition. The amazing fact of our times, however, is the realization that this culture is also post-Christian in that it no longer remembers what a commitment to Christian truth really means or even how it functions.

The loss of theological memory is profound, reaching into the lives and worldviews of millions of modern Americans who no longer even remember that they once did remember a Christian past. That past, now repudiated in the name of moral progress and intellectual liberation, is no longer even recognized as the past. The only past some people know is the most immediate past — an already secularized past.

This is the current context of Christian work and witness. We are staring down the barrel of modernity at warp speed.

It is not a pretty sight. This is how civilizations shift. It moves from the foundations up and out throughout the entire cultural system. Eventually, every aspect of the society is transformed, from the smallest cultural habit to the most profound

Pathologies and statistics abound and multiply.