Postmodern Theology

On Culture War, Doug Wilson, and the Moscow Mood by Dr. Kevin DeYoung

Bavinck Byeon 2023. 12. 16. 11:17

 

 

"Each of the great world civilizations,” Christopher Dawson wrote in his classic work from the 1940s on Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, “has been faced with the problem of reconciling the aggressive ethos of the warrior with the moral ideals of a universal religion. But in none of them has the tension been so vital and intense as in medieval Christendom and nowhere have the results been more important for the history of culture.” At the heart of Dawson’s provocative thesis is the insistence that Western European culture was the coming together of two cultures, two social traditions, and two spiritual worlds. The cultural formation of Europe combined “the war society of the barbarian kingdom with its cult of heroism and aggression,” leavened by “the peace society of the Christian Church with its ideals of asceticism and renunciation and its high theological culture."

 

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On Culture War, Doug Wilson, and the Moscow Mood | Kevin DeYoung

“So, what do you think about Doug Wilson?” is a question I’ve been asked many times during my years in pastoral ministry.

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