This week’s blog is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective. This was an excerpt from The Gospel After Christendom: An Introduction to Cultural Apologetics and was written by contributor Trevin Wax. This book was written by fellows from The Keller Center and seeks to define cultural apologetics, explain its biblical and historical grounding, and demonstrate its importance for the church today. Click here to learn more.
Today we’re witnessing both a rise in secularism and a corresponding decline in the percentage of people who belong to religious organizations or claim religious faith. Around forty million Americans have left the church in the last twenty-five years.1 Other countries have seen similar declines. Such a massive shift in religious demographics cannot help but alter a society’s underlying beliefs, desires, and hopes. There was a time when the decision not to adhere to a religious tradition was rare and atheism implausible. Today, the plausibility structures have shifted to the point where it’s more unusual in some places to believe in God or to attend church than to not.
For centuries in the West, much of human life was understood within the conceptual framework of a society influenced
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