The death of Christian culture - Senior, John (IHS Press, 2008)
What is Christian culture? -- The perennial heresy -- Eastward ho! hum -- The real absence -- The emperor's new literature -- Be ye therefore perfect -- To each his own -- The risk of certainty -- The emperor of ice cream -- Dark night of the church -- Black but beautiful
First published in 1978, this hard-hitting exposition discusses the root causes of how and why Christian culture is dying. It investigates literature, culture, history, and religion in an attempt to show that education is increasingly about bureaucratic training and less about scholarly truth. A warning that cultural and artistic treasures of classical and Christian civilizations must be preserved, this provocative analysis diagnoses a cultural and societal malaise facing modern Western societies