Christians, it’s time to think a bit more deeply about the Jordan Peterson moment. Unless you’ve been asleep and on a different planet for the past several weeks, you’ve probably seen a video clip of the increasingly popular social commentator Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Most recently, Peterson was rocketed to the precarious and perhaps not-what-one-bargained-for, but nevertheless real, spotlight of internet stardom by brilliantly handling an aggressive feminist interviewer with raw logic, facts, and truth.
Read MoreIn his work entitled The Future of Christianity Alister E. McGrath focuses on the major paths and trends of Christianity in the twentieth century as a background for determining what may lay in store for the church, globally considered, in the near future. His analysis deals with the effects of Enlightenment thought on theology and lays out a method of appropriate reaction. For this he draws from the work of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. This proposal has appealing aspects and yet sounds suspicious for drawing upon the Marxist theorist. In this essay, I hope to show you some of the worthy features while pointing to a better role model from Church history.
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