Twilight of a Great Civilization is a collection of essays put together due to the common theme that each one embraces. In one of the essays, We Are Warriors With A Mission In The World, Carl F.H. Henry is asking evangelicals to take seriously the mission of cultural engagement for the sake of Christ.
“Christianity is qualitatively different or it has nothing distinctive to offer the world…Christian duty requires courageous participation at the frontiers of public concern – education, mass media, politics, law, literature and the arts, labor and economics, and the whole realm of cultural pursuits. We need to do more than to sponsor a Christian subculture. We need Christian counterculture that sets itself alongside the secular rivals and publishes openly the difference that belief in God and His Christ makes in the arenas of thought and action. We need Christian countermoves that commend new climate, countermoves that penetrate the public realm…We must strive to reclaim this cosmos for its rightful owner, God, who has title to the cattle on a thousand hills, and for Christ who says to the lost multitudes, “I made you; I died for you; I ransomed you.”
Carl F.H. Henry, Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1988), 44.
October 24, 2014
AMEN and Thank You!
October 25, 2014
Great job!