Louis Dupré says that the central challenge of our age is the lack of any integrating truth: “We experience our culture as fragmented; we live on bits of meaning and lack the overall vision that holds them together in a whole.” As a result, people feel an intense need for self-integration. Christianity has the power to integrate our lives and create a coherent personality structure, but only if we embrace it as the ultimate, capital-T truth that pulls together all lesser truths. Our commitment to Christian truth “cannot simply remain one discrete part of life,” Dupré says; it must “integrate
...more
