many Christians are now more aware of the contributions of the social sciences than when I first wrote, though this has its snags too. First, much of the new awareness stops at an obsession with statistics, which itself is often a form of reductionism and even of worldliness. It misses the deeper understanding that comes only from wise theory and deeper analysis. Second, too much of the awareness is uncritical, so that Evangelicals have swung from an earlier ignorance of the social sciences to an