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. . . Here, perhaps, lies the paradox of Western European religion: Its intellectual creativity stemmed directly from its determination to come to terms with the Enlightenment, a move that over time undermined the very credibility of the faith. Gradually, beginning in the eighteenth century, much of the leadership of Western European Christianity accepted the idea that the faith was obligated to prove itself to its "cultured despisers," a chimerical effort that failed to persuade those despisers but conveyed to believers themselves the message that their faith was ultimately not credible. A slogan of the 1960s—"The world sets the agenda for the church"—sums it up. Whatever Christians may think about Marxism, Freudianism, feminism, sexual morality, or numerous other contested questions, it is obvious that Christianity's self-conscious avant-garde does not make new "breakthroughs" by plunging yet more deeply into their own tradition but merely cobbles together theological rationalizations for the current preoccupations of the secular culture. . . .
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