First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, October 1st, 2000
The idea that religion is the heart of culture and culture is the form of religion has been proposed in various ways by Christian thinkers over the years, and there is, I believe, a great deal to it. The danger, of course, is that it can lead to a smooth synthesis of religion and culture that typically ends up making religion superfluous. This was the case with the cultural Protestantism in Germany against which Karl Barth so magnificently posited his theological "Nein!" And it is, mutatis mutandis, the case with mainline/oldline Protestantism in this country today. It is a phenomenon that has...
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