“I want to like this book. Hunter grants that his view of culture is debatable. His dismissal of grassroots movements makes the activist, preacher, and community organizer in us all a little feisty. Yet he invites theological reflection on the nature of institutions, leadership, and power in a time when it’s so much easier (and more popular) to say institutions are suspect, leadership is lame, and power always corrupts.
Then again, Christians could be much more “faithfully present” with Hunter if he didn’t make so many of them his enemies, especially when he obscures just how much they have in common … “
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