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“To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God’s restorative purposes over all of life,”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“idealism ignores the way culture is generated,”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“culture is not neutral in relation to power but a form of power.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“merely engaging the culture implies the issue and exercise of power.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“theology moves in the opposite direction of social theory,”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“THE MANDATE OF CREATION is a source both of glory and of shame for the Christian community.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“there is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.”
― James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“evangelicals overestimate our size and influence as a movement.”
― John S. Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

“With each younger generation, evangelicals account for less of their generation.”
― John S. Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

“Christ’s incarnation was less a reaction or response than it was a proactive demonstration of love:”
― John S. Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

“Billy Graham’s crusades likely marked the peak of mass evangelism.”
― John S. Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

“most of the world is bubbling with religious passions.”1”
― Phil Zuckerman, Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

“Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.”
― Phil Zuckerman, Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

“one can never predict or foresee what lies ahead when it comes to humans and religion.”
― Phil Zuckerman, Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

“separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

“the "home base" of missions is now nothing less than the worldwide community, and”
― Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

“political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth,”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline

“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline

“The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.”
― Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline