Social intolerability of the Christian revelation

a comparative perspective on the works of Jacques Ellul and Peter L. Berger

Andrei Ivan

pp. 219-228

in: Helena Mateus Jerónimo, José L. García, Carl Mitcham (eds), Jacques Ellul and the technological society in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2013

Abstract

During the twentieth century, the Christian Church became increasingly aware of a new social milieu and tried to make its message relevant in a progressively secularized culture. The social approach became dominant, with the result that, in the words of one critic, "we have come to see just how the terms 'social" and 'society" have so insinuated themselves that we never question the assumption that while "religious' is problematic, the 'social" is obvious. The idea that the former should be referred to the latter appears like an innocent, genial inspiration" (Milbank 1993: 102).

Cited authors

Berger Peter L

Ellul Jacques