As Halden and James K.A. Smith have noted, it is hard to take seriously a book on Christ and Culture from a guy who doesn’t really believe in the significance of cultural forms larger than the individual. I haven’t read his Christ and Culture Revisited, and don’t plan to. But an old book of his, A Call to Spiritual Reformation came through the bookstore recently, and flipping through it, I stumbled on this highly illustrative quote:
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have snet us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.
Let us all thank Dr. Carson from taking the church’s focus off starvation, disease, and war, and placing it back where it should be: sin!
Oh Carson, you came and your brought me a savior!
Physician, heal thyself!
Oh my God. Scary thing is, Jesus was an economist, a satirist, a healer, and a politician–everything Carson denies Jesus was. I think Carson is the Antichrist.