Quotes about Modernism

This uncertainty in turn, of course, begets a new and anxious eagerness for certainty: hence the appeal of fundamentalism, which in today's world is not so much a return to a premodern worldview but precisely to one form of modernism (reading the Bible within the grid of a quasi-or pseudoscientific quest for "objective truth

That is why the relentlessly modernist and progressivist projects that the politicians feel obliged to offer us ("vote for us and things will get better!") have to be dressed up with the relentlessly postmodernist techniques of spin and hype: in the absence of real hope, all that is left is feelings. Persuasion will not work because we're never going to believe it. What we appear to need, and therefore what people give us, is entertainment.

If you want to know why the "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the answer is that they're offering the modernist version of the good old-fashioned theological term "assurance." They are assuring anxious ex-believers that the nightmare of small-minded and stultifying "religion" is gone

Notions of absolute truth and ultimate authority are fiercely attacked, and the Bible itself is no longer accorded unconditional respect in Western societies.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.