The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It’s Tempting to Live as If God Doesn’t Exist (Biblia.com)

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This telling critique of the modern world not only exposes the foundational worldview of contemporary secular society and the ideas that undergird modern culture, but it also shows how, for Christians, one of the most insidious temptations fostered by these ideas is the enticement of “practical atheism.” Craig Gay describes the powerful ideas that have built today’s modern complex, exposes the...

of the quality of their culture generally.2 So G. W. F. Hegel asserted at the introduction of a remarkable series of lectures on the philosophy of world history in 1830. The form of a people’s religion, Hegel continued, determines the form of the state and the character of its constitution.3 Put somewhat differently, political life provides a kind of window into the soul of a people, revealing their most basic assumptions about the nature of the world and their most cherished aspirations for life

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