Minority Report Quotes

“The light may well be dying, but we will rage, rage against it; and be assured, we will never go gentle into that good night.”
― Carl R. Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

“A world, and a church, which is hooked on novelty like some cultural equivalent of crack cocaine needs the cold, cynical eye of the historian to stand as a prophetic witness against it.”
― Carl R. Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

“The radical fragmentation of academic disciplines, with the concomitant development of the rebarbative and arcane language which specialization brings in its wake, has served to render higher education not a context for developing independent thinking but for fostering a trivialization of values, where PhDs on hotel management and on body piercing at the Jersey shore have as much legitimacy as those dealing with what would once have been considered the great questions of life: eternal salvation or class struggle or world poverty or nuclear war.”
― Carl R. Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

“What I am claiming is that mere Christianity, a Christianity which lacks this doctrinal elaboration, is an insufficient basis either for building a church or for guaranteeing the long-term stability of the tradition of the church, i.e. the transmission from generation to generation and from place to place of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.”
― Carl R. Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

“And evangelicalism, from its roots in revivalism and pietism, through its development in the pragmatic, anti-speculative culture of America, to its current existence as a more-or-less amorphous, transdenominational coalition, has historically embodied in its very essence an antipathy to precise and comprehensive doctrinal statements. ”
― Carl R. Trueman, Minority Report: Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism