Christendom Is the Solution, Not the Problem: Studies in Theological and Cultural Confusion
The consensus in the West since the Middle Ages has been Christianity, specifically Christian culture. This was an obviously imperfect but foundationally cohesive culture that tied together the thinking of Western man: the reality of the Triune God, the truth of the Bible, the authority of God’s moral law, man’s task to conform himself to God’s place for him in the world.
That consensus began to dissolve with the 18th century European Enlightenment, which set reason above revelation as the arbiter of truth. Henceforth, man’s reason, not God’s revelation, was to provide the cultural consensus.
Except it didn’t. In less than a century, Romanticism, elevating the individual’s feelings and emotions and intuition, rose to combat the sterility of Enlightenment. Since that time, consensus has gradually eroded, not just in culture, but also the church. Everyone is now his own authority.
This book discusses leading examples of this loss of consensus, this loss of Christendom.
But man cannot forever endure confusion, even cultural confusion. He longs for certainty and coherence. Today, the new developing consensus is secular and Neo-pagan: cancel culture, Black Lives Matter, homonormativity, and statism. This evolving consensus, if successful, will brook no dissent.
The only viable alternative is a new Christian cultural consensus.
This book is about launching that consensus.