Hey Nathan, some good meaty thoughts here. Appreciate your blog is trying to raise bigger picture issues about TOCC’s, as you point out, the epistemological issues are important and not often considered. However for what it’s worth, James Davison Hunter, an author in this jungle, has a bit of a following down here in New Zealand. I like his thesis that a numbers approach to changing the world is dumb (more evangelism = more Christians = more influence for good = world is changed). We have been doing this for centuries and things are getting worse. His alternative theory that change is effected by networked elites is not palatable to many Christians, but you can certainly see evidence for this in contexts like 18th century UK and the Clapham sect. We are following the US presidential elections with interest down here in the South Pacific, the result will affect the whole world. Recent events are giving us renewed hope…! 🙂🙂. Regards, Gray
Hey Nathan, some good meaty thoughts here. Appreciate your blog is trying to raise bigger picture issues about TOCC’s, as you point out, the epistemological issues are important and not often considered. However for what it’s worth, James Davison Hunter, an author in this jungle, has a bit of a following down here in New Zealand. I like his thesis that a numbers approach to changing the world is dumb (more evangelism = more Christians = more influence for good = world is changed). We have been doing this for centuries and things are getting worse. His alternative theory that change is effected by networked elites is not palatable to many Christians, but you can certainly see evidence for this in contexts like 18th century UK and the Clapham sect. We are following the US presidential elections with interest down here in the South Pacific, the result will affect the whole world. Recent events are giving us renewed hope…! 🙂🙂. Regards, Gray