Bad News for Would-Be World Changers
Jun 7, 2010

That’s the main argument of Hunter’s new To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, recently published by Oxford University Press. Hunter writes specifically about Christians and their various attempts — including those undertaken by conservative evangelicals, liberal mainliners, and Roman Catholics — to bring about cultural change. But his thesis applies just as well to non-religious groups.

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