World Magazine iInterviews Os Guiness " But many Americans now ignore the need for virtue and faith, and these Patrick Henry students will be living through the triangle’s collapse. What do you suggest they should do? As Christians, our challenge is to go back as close as we can to the gospel and truly to be the church. Increasingly, we’re likely to be a counter-culture. As that happens, we will be the last great defenders of reason, of truth, of human dignity, with the task of defending not just theoretically, in apologetics, but practically—as the early church did—hospitals, orphanages, and so on. Our privilege will be to repeat that story in our time." "How else should we prepare ourselves? We’re in an Augustinian moment. Augustine had the privilege and task of living in a pivotal moment: After 800 years of Roman dominance, he lived through the siege of Carthage and the siege of Rome. After 800 years, a fall beyond belief. The world as they’d known it—gone. He laid down the vision of the church’s response that was the bridge that led through the Dark Ages and eventually to Christendom. We’ve had 500 years of Western dominance, now at its sunset. " worldmag/2013/06/aliens_and_strangers
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