Conservative Capitulation

“In our modern world, the more conservative in theology a particular church or denomination is, the less likely they are to love poetry. Many conservative believers and defenders of the faith have sought to do their work through doctrinal engineering and theological abstractions. This has resulted in a truncated form of the faith — which is what the faith looks like when it compromises with the forces of modernity. Far from providing an alternative to modernity, this kind of Christianity is simply the ‘conservative’ capitulation to modernity” (Beyond Stateliest Marble, p. 232).