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Originally Posted by bookslover  In a couple of weeks, our adult Sunday School class will begin reading her book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2005).
Has anyone read this book? Can you discuss its pros and cons? |
Our men's group had it as their study two years ago. I was not in the group, but looked at a copy and did a psuedo Evelyn Wood treatment of it. I also have heard her speak on tape.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but I get the impression that she is sort of a "reformed Chuck Colson" when it comes to cultural issues. In other words, she encourages engagement, but runs as far away from reconstructionism as she can.
The problem I have with this approach, or the Colson approach, or other evangelical approaches, is that ultimately they all boil down to a half-way accommodation approach. In other words, forget about Christianizing the culture - it ain't gonna happen. So, here is what we offer as a "happy medium" solution.
It all comes down to the Tertullian quote, used by VanTil as a title of one of his books - what does Jerusalem have in common with Athens? There is no way they can honestly co-exist; one will have to give way to the other.
Bahnsen postulated this 30 years ago, and nothing has changed. Pearcey, Colson, and others attempt the half-way solutions, but nothing seriously workable rarely comes from them for the reason I mention above.