These Christians inherited a public sphere bereft of faith as most of us would have recognized it. If God were banished from our professional lives, we were bewildered by the challenges of our private lives. Even in this onslaught of pressures, Christians always knew that God pursues us, forcing us onto questions we cannot answer, making us seek wisdom we can never quite master or letting us face demands we alone could never meet. God's mercies continue. Perhaps it always has been so.
Ideologies go in and out of favor.
The language for speaking of faith shifts with the times. Yet the Creator never changes. God's Word forever wields its power. And people of faith are caught between change and the Unchanging. Other books should take up the subject.