“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture”
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak.”
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and problematic theology.”
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.”
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism”
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
― To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
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