prophetic

"The brute fact remains that this country, which has produced more Protestant believers than any other, has also produced fewer powerful Protestant theologians and theological-social theorists than any other major Protestant country. The evangelical leaders are not equipped intellectually to think through the complex social issues of the times and offer genuinely new and promising solutions to them…Without a genuinely critical position resting on Christian foundations and directed by a coherent theological vision that can deal with modern science and technology and the reality of foreign cultures, it is likely that the evangelical voice in politics today will once again confuse the Christian faith with the American flag."

John Schaar wrote this thirty years ago.