A Review of We Cannot Be Silent. By Albert Mohler
by Bill Muehlenberg:
Thomas Nelson, 2015.
The West is undergoing a monumental moral revolution which is decisively undermining – indeed, destroying – millennia of accumulated cultural, religious and ethical tradition. This is especially found in the sexual revolution which is sweeping everything before its path.
It may be that no revolution has been so far-reaching and so destructive. How the Christian is to understand this, explain it, and resist it, is the focus of this important volume. And Al Mohler is well placed to undertake this task, being one of our finest evangelical cultural observers and commentators.
In 200 well-documented pages he explains how this came about, what its ramifications are, and how believers should respond. While numerous volumes on the sexual revolution have been penned, this is among the finest in terms of laying out the problems and offering concerned Christians a way forward.
This moral hurricane sweeping through the West has its roots in the past, with things like the Enlightenment, the rise of secularisation, and the like playing key roles. But it came to prominence in the 60s with four main contributing factors: birth control and contraception, easy divorce, assisted reproductive technologies, and cohabitation.
All these developments radically altered sexual morality in the West, and sadly the church said or did little to resist these forces. Consider the issue of divorce, where we overnight seem to have gone from a marriage culture to a divorce culture. Believers by and large sat by and allowed it to happen.
Says Mohler, “The evangelical abdication of responsibility for divorce set the stage for a loss of evangelical credibility to speak to the larger issue of sexuality and marriage. Quite pointedly, the church now has massive liabilities in terms of credibility when it seeks to speak about the ‘clear teachings of the Bible’ on marriage.”
See also: A Review of Impossible People by Os Guinness. Bill Muehlenberg.
Now the spiritual heritage and underpinnings of the West are under direct attack, and a new paganism is arising…At stake is the very survival of the West. Says Guinness: “We are not simply guardians of some of the best of the past, but pioneers whose task is to stand against the world for the future of the world—and for the very future of humanity. No less than that is the high calling at stake in many of our present challenges.”
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