{"id":5045,"date":"2023-05-06T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2024-12-28T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:32:56","slug":"we-have-lost-our-christian-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/we-have-lost-our-christian-minds","title":{"rendered":"WE HAVE LOST OUR CHRISTIAN MINDS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Recovering<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Center for the Study of God & Culture<\/em> exists to encourage Christians to relate cultural and political issues to the theological framework of the Christian faith, to view all of life in relationship to the sovereign purposes of God as the antidote to the outrage and fear which characterizes so much of the Christian response to the evil of our age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, we produce resources and podcasts with the objective of recovering the Christian mind. That sentiment is not original with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The English Anglican theologian Harry Blamires (1916-2017)<\/a> published Recovering the Christian Mind <\/em>in 1988 as a response to the secularism of the late 20th century. It was a follow up to his 1963 The Christian Mind<\/em> in which he wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"There is no longer a Christian mind. There is still, of course, the Christian ethic; a Christian practice, and a Christian spirituality\u2026 But as a thinking being the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion \u2014 its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which relates all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems \u2014 social, political, cultural \u2014 to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith.\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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