Sublime

Those who see the world as safe, and who are motivated by exploring and trying new experiences, tend to support more liberal views.

Postmodern society has a surfeit of analysts and an impoverishment of artists.

In a secular age, when the good life is deferred to the dream-state of the future, the church loses any sense of scope. The congregation narrows and becomes a service organization of resources. It is no longer a community of practice and tradition that wears a wholly distinct orientation to time.

When he returned, it would not be to a modern-style middle-class suburb where everybody (in theory at least) minded their own business, but to a peasant village which thrived on narrative. Not mere gossip, either: the community would order its life and thought by telling and retelling important events which had made them who they were.

intrusive, potent cultural values of contemporary America have skewed Christianity’s classical beliefs and deconstructed the Church’s wisest and proven faith-forming practices.

Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident.

personal identity became increasingly associated not with the narrative of one's inner life but with the projectionof one's public image.

I will demonstrate that a major cause of our current cultural crisis consists of a worldview shift from a Judeo-Christian understanding of reality to a post-Christian one. Moreover, this shift itself expresses a growing anti-intellectualism in the church, resulting in the marginalization of Christianity in society — its lack of saltiness, if you wi