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“Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.”

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Thomas Oden

Thomas Oden was an American theologian and author, born on October 21, 1931, and passed away on December 8, 2016. His works covered a wide range of fields including Christian theology, history, and philosophy, and had a profound impact on contemporary theology. more

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