“Trinitarian culture is attacked from one side for its diversity, and from the other for its monolithic unity. Currently, the most immediate assault is being made under the banner of diversity and randomness.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 73
Which Explains Our Current Plight
“No society can survive if none of her wise men can give one good reason why she should. No civilization can last if her philosophers thinks she shouldn’t.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 70
Power Softens
“The ‘orthodoxy’ of today is epitomized by evolutionary relativistic sixties radicals who are now university presidents with cushy salaries. It must be said that at least some Christians outside now have an increasingly lean and hungry look. What happened to us a century ago is happening to them now.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 68
Compensatory Crusades
“The platitudes of the reassuring and accepting therapist are no longer adequate. The reservoir of guilt in a society is too great, and the words are too small. Nothing will do but a great crusade to rid the world of the ‘real’ evil, which will be, each in their turn, polluters trashing the planet, women being denied their rights, and so forth. These crusades are nothing other than great causes invented to give moral order and purpose to people who have previously affirmed that there is no such thing as morality.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 65
A Different Kind of Marriage Book
“The best thing which a husband could do for his marriage, and his nation would be to put down that copy of How to Put Zing Back in the Ol’ Marriage, and pick up John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 62
Or An Honest Try
“When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He secured the salvation of all His elect. The love that He displayed there could in no way be described as an attempt.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 60
A Function of Our Dwindling Pride
“Afflicted with pretty much everything the modern church is certainly looking around for remedies. But where and how we look for these remedies remains a function of what ails us, and we are not yet desperate enough to ask for directions to the divine pharmacy.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 59
Full and Overflowing
“The average Christian bookstore, which reflects accurately what we are about, is an abundant cornucopia of bushwah.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 57
Limited Supplies
“In the meantime, modernity, that once proud heresy, has visibly started to topple. Postmodernists are running around gleefully, just like looters after an earthquake in a great city, but postmodernity’s self-confessed parasitic relativism means that it has a cultural staying power which can be measured in weeks. After the looted Twinkies® run out, everyone will be hungry again.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 56
Not the Gospel Moment We Think It Is
“The evangelical world is still sitting under modernity’s table, eager for any crumbs that may fall our way. The big news down here is when some rock star or other intimates that it is possible that, under certain conditions, he might believe in a divine being other than himself, we snatch it up eagerly and feast for weeks.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 55