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Fourth: Christianity once commanded power—crowns, schools, courts. Power gave its words gravity. Now it must compete in the marketplace of meanings with nations, sciences, and self-help. The sermon is quieter than the screen; the sacrament is slower than the feed. A faith that renounced the sword must persuade—and persuasion is harder than rule.
So the less Christianity shapes the world, the more the world exposes Christianity’s dependence on world-shaping. It is not an accident but an inner logic: the will to truth undermines belief; the diffusion of values empties the temple; the loss of peril dissolves the need for saviors. What follows is the old European question: create new tables of value—or drift into the soft nihilism of the satisfied herd.
Fourth: Christianity once commanded power—crowns, schools, courts. Power gave its words gravity. Now it must compete in the marketplace of meanings with nations, sciences, and self-help. The sermon is quieter than the screen; the sacrament is slower than the feed. A faith that renounced the sword must persuade—and persuasion is harder than rule.
So the less Christianity shapes the world, the more the world exposes Christianity’s dependence on world-shaping. It is not an accident but an inner logic: the will to truth undermines belief; the diffusion of values empties the temple; the loss of peril dissolves the need for saviors. What follows is the old European question: create new tables of value—or drift into the soft nihilism of the satisfied herd.
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