Last time I began sharing some thoughts from Paul Hiebert’s Transforming Worldviews. The book is of special interest to those interested in missions, though I think many of the thoughts are relevant to the whole church.

One such thought was about the dualism created by modernity. Hiebert says:

Modern Neoplatonic dualism has left many Western Christians with a spiritual schizophrenia. They believe in God and the cosmic history of creation, fall, redemption, final judgment, and new creation. Yet they live in an ordinary world that they explain in naturalistic terms—one in which there is little room for God. (Kindle location 3156)

Because of this, says Hiebert, religion was pushed into a private sphere. Science and humanities are taught publicly, but religion is expected to be taught privately. That leads to a natural secularization of society.

I think we can also see this in the way Christians relate to science. Frankly, many Christians don’t know what to do with science, especially when it seems to contradict their faith.