. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings.

If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.