Should We Defend 'Christian Civilization'?

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Paul Kingsnorth delivers the Erasmus Lecture in October

First Things has published the text of Paul Kingsnorth’s Erasmus Lecture from earlier this fall. It’s title: “Against Christian Civilization,” an argument for abandoning the project of Christianizing culture. Excerpts:

I have taken to calling the strange, dissolving, increasingly nihilistic moment we…