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Book review: What does it mean to be a Christian in the late modern world?

By Alliance Alert

Richard Gamble reviews To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Davison Hunter, Oxford University Press, 368 pages: "Sociologist James Davison Hunter . . . takes up the question of what Christian faithfulness ought to look like in 21st-century America.Hunter?s alternative model of social change foregrounds the role played by institutions, top-down leadership, and well-financed networks of elites operating at the centers of 'cultural production' . . . Hunter summons Christians to a more comprehensive application of the Great Commission that, while still carrying them into 'all the world,' will reach beyond geography to include every institution: the arts, sciences, media, politics, education, entertainment, social welfare, and more."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 28, 2011 (boomark / email).