Category Archives: Secularization

Hauerwas – Beyond “Friendly” Church

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

We continued working through Stanley Hauerwas’s essay, “Discipleship as a Craft, Church as Disciplined Community.” (Link to audio) We began with a quick return to the second paragraph which we’d started on last week: That the church has difficulty being … Continue reading →

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Abraham in the Negative World

Posted on March 11, 2025 by Richard Heyduck

Continuing a review of Billy Abraham’s Divine Agency and Divine Action: Systematic Theology, v.3, there is a passage that touches on phenomena Aaron Renn interprets in his recently popular book, Life in the Negative World. We stand currently at a … Continue reading →

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The Downside of Church Success

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Richard Heyduck

There is a long-standing tendency to reduce the Christian faith to ethics. In Christology this shows up when we see Jesus primarily as teacher. As a teacher – in fact The Great Teacher – Jesus gives us the information we need … Continue reading →

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Secularism Makes for a Better Islam?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Richard Heyduck

Sometimes when we westerners look at the world, particularly at chaos in and emanating from the so-called Muslim world, we suggest that they need more secularism. Islam, it is assumed, must be the problem. If they can manage to tone … Continue reading →

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An Observation on Secularization Theory

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Richard Heyduck

At least as fat back as August Comte, secularization theory has claimed that the rise of reason would compel the decline of religion. The more society progressed in knowledge, understanding and technology, the more secularized society would become. We take … Continue reading →

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