There are Christians in every generation who forlornly assume that their generation, beyond any previous generation, has at last hit bottom. After a year like 2020, that may seem especially true. Though we’re not certain our generation is really any better or worse than the ones that have gone before, it’s true that our generation faces intellectual challenges never encountered by our forefathers in the faith. The waters we sail are uniquely choppy.
We face questions related to race, Christian nationalism, politics, human cloning, new definitions of marriage, gender reassignment, the advent of social media, computers in our pockets more powerful than what NASA used to put the first man on the moon, religious relativism juxtaposed against militant Islam, an ever shrinking social and economic global community, an increasingly post-Christian West, the rise of the “new atheists,” and more. Few if any of these threats existed before. So we need careful theological and intellectual leadership.
PASTORS ARE OUR THEOLOGICAL LEADERS
In past generations, such leadership was primarily the domain of the church’s bishops and pastors. But since the Enlightenment, the pastoral community has increasingly quit the field. The university professor has replaced the pastor as the assumed theological leader of
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