To Change the World: The Irony Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World The structure of this book is quite simple. Hunter creates a three part typology of ways in which Christians have attempted to change the world; he then systematically argues for the inadequacy of each strategy; and finally he proposes a fourth alternative that he says fits his theory of power and cultural change. To give away the ending of this review I found his three fold typology to be useful at a descriptive level but I was dissatisfied with the solution that he proposes. The first type he labels “defensive against” and includes fundamentalists many mainstream evangelicals and some conservative Catholics. They have a mythical ideal of a rightly ordered society and believe that American culture is morally bankrupt moving toward disorder.