Fundamentally (an interesting choice of opening word given its vexed history in Protestantism; here I mean by it “essentially” but in the sense of “foundationally,” what is at base rather than merely what is at the core or essence of a thing), the church in Western culture is facing a trilogy of overlapping contexts. Much of our inter-mural arguments, and much of the parallel effectiveness or lack thereof of our missiology, is rooted in a lack of understanding which of these elements we are facing at any one time, or to what degree they may intertwine. For shorthand, and totemically, I call these trilogy of contemporary adversaries: Pharisaism, Paganism, and Barbarism.
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