The Religious Significance of Christian Engagement in the Culture Wars

Abstract

The churches need to recover a sense for how their engagement in the culture wars involves them in fundamental religious disagreements. They also need to understand what is at stake in that engagement in a concrete enough way to allow for adjudication of the arguments pro and con on specifically religious grounds. The more discussion turns in these two directions, the more I believe the merits of a progressive position are likely to become apparent in the church universal.