Is there a wrong side of history? Are Christians being left behind?
As our society becomes ever more secular, Christians are increasingly seen as relics of the past, resisting progress. In the key moral debates of the day, believers are told to get up to date.
References
- 1 Fukuyama, F, The End of History and The Last Man, Penguin Books, 2012, page 64
- 2 Ibid, page 70
- 3 Ibid, page 130
- 4 Ibid, page 66
- 5 Ibid, page 60
- 6 The Washington Post online, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/09/the-man-who-declared-the-end-of-history-fears-for-democracys-future/ as at 18 February 2020
- 7 Huntington, S, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, 2002, page 301
- 8 Ibid, page 304
- 9 Loc cit
- 10 Pinker, S, Enlightenment Now, Allen Lane, 2018, page 155
- 11 Ibid, page 30
- 12 Giddens, A, The Transformation of Intimacy, Stanford University Press, 1992, pages 178-182
- 13 Ibid, pages 182, 179, 194
- 14Lewis, C S, The Weight of Glory, William Collins, 2013, pages 81-82
- 15 Ibid, page 82
- 16 Loc cit
- 17 Lewis, C S, Surprised by Joy, William Collins, 2016, page 240
- 18 Ibid, page 241
- 19 Loc cit
- 20 Lewis, C S, ‘Modern Man and his Categories of Thought’, in Lewis, C S, Present Concerns, 2017, HarperCollins
- 21 Lewis, C S, ‘Historicism’, in Christian Reflections, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2014, page 137
- 22 Butterfield, H, The Whig Interpretation of History, W W Norton and Company, 1965, page 132
- 23 Ibid, page 5
- 24 Ibid, pages 41-42
- 25 Ibid, page 29
- 26 Ibid, pages 52 and 62
- 27 Ibid, page 107
- 28 Ibid, page 107
