Rolling Up the Sleeves

God's Total Book for Telling it All, for Telling it Well

This is vintage Alan Bloom on the unraveling of the centrality of the Bible for all in American life:

“In the United States, practically speaking, the Bible was the only common culture, one that united simple and sophisticated, rich and poor, young and old, and--as the very model for a vision of the order of the whole of things, as well as the key to the rest of Western art, the greatest works of which were in one way or another responsive to the Bible--provided access to the seriousness of books. With its gradual and inevitable disappearance, the very idea of such a total book and the possibility and necessity of world-explanation is disappearing.”

G. Mark Sumpter