Will Western culture hunger for God more than we realize? (with Andy Crouch)

Good Faith

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The dominant narrative is that Western culture is headed for ever greater levels of atheism, agnosticism, or at least departure from belief in the Christian God. Andy Crouch returns from his sabbatical to question this narrative. He points out that the dominant secular worldview of the West - deterministic, rationalistic, and reductionist - is starting to run on empty. Can this lead to a greater hunger for the Christian God? Curtis and Andy examine what Christians would need to do to meet this hunger, including reexamining our own understanding of the Gospel itself.

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World by Ian McGilchrist

At the Origins of Modern Atheism by Michael J. Buckley

The One, the Three, and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity by Colin Gunton

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith
0:21.3	Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel and it's where
0:24.9	friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world and one
0:30.8	question about the Western world is the future of its religious belief.
0:37.0	If you read the news about the state of religious belief in Western culture,
0:41.0	you would think that the future looks bleak.
0:44.0	One news article after another features the latest survey that shows market declines and beliefs
0:49.2	that resemble, you know, Orthodox Christianity in some way way Europe is supposed to be practically post
0:55.2	Christian and America is supposed to inevitably follow or so the narrative goes so this
1:01.5	question what is the future of the Western culture's hunger for God
1:06.9	is a question we should be asking to make sense of where the world is headed?
1:10.6	Is it done with God or at least the God who resembles what the Bible depicts?
1:15.6	Well here's where I believe a key truth about how we make sense of the world
1:20.3	is important to keep in mind and And that is news articles and surveys that when it comes
1:26.1	to anticipating the future, sometimes news articles and surveys are often not very helpful.
1:31.5	Because news articles and surveys often by their very
1:34.9	nature are lagging indicators of deep trends in culture. Quite often by the time a
1:41.3	trend has gotten picked up by news articles and surveys
1:44.7	that trend has actually crested and it can actually mask other deeper trends
1:50.2	building underneath with deeper cultural roots, but one that actually may be more
1:55.9	predictive and more powerful in shaping the future. In other words, to anticipate the future cultural receptivity to God, one may need to, if you will, unplug from current events and data and take some time to think and dig deeper.
2:14.1	So the kind of person I wanted to talk to about this question
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Good Faith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Good Faith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.