Christian-ITY: How a 3-Letter Suffix Shifts Our Focus

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Christian-ITY: How a 3-Letter Suffix Shifts Our Focus

Phil Miglioratti with Assistive Inquiry

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Modular Teaching Resources:

Essay (2 versions), Scripture Discussion/Handout, Guest-Post, Quotes,

Discussion Prompts, Conversation Starters.

This resource is intentionally modular, non-linear, and at times repetitive,

offering multiple pathways for self-study, small groups,

teaching series, and sermon preparation.

Core Conviction:

There is a danger in failing to identify the significant differences between

being a Christian believer and believing in Christianity.

Additional Resources:

√How to Recenter Christ in the Lives of Christians

√Consumeranity: A Subtle but Serious Dis-Ease that Infects the Church 

√7 Contagious Theological Viruses Influencing & Infecting The Church

√A Plea to Rethink How Your Worldview Impacts Your Christianity 

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CHRISTIAN or CHRISTIANITY?

 

What’s the Question?

 

“Christian” names a person or describes something related to Christ.

“Christianity” names the religion, movement, system, tradition, or total body of beliefs and practices associated with Christians.

 

So the suffix -ity turns the word from personal identity into abstract or collective reality.

 

A simple way to see it:

• Christian = a follower of Jesus Christ
• Christianity = the faith, history, doctrines, institutions, cultures, and expressions connected to those followers

 

That means the difference is not small.

 

Christian is relational and personal.
It points to a disciple, a life, a loyalty, a way of being.

 

Christianity is broader and more constructed.
It can include theology, denominations, traditions, habits, organizations, politics, culture, and history.

 

So someone might say:

• “He is a Christian” — speaking about a person
• “Christianity teaches…” — speaking about the religion or its traditions

 

This also explains why the two words can feel very different in conversation.

 

A person may admire Jesus and respect a Christian yet struggle with parts of Christianity as an institution or cultural system.

 

Or said another way:

A Christian is someone who follows Christ.

Christianity is what inevitably happens when followers become focused on their communities, teachings, structures, customs, and cultural philosophies.

 

Each serves a purpose, but they can redirect what begins as a living faith into a formal, repetitive, system. A living relationship with Christ can harden into religion. A movement can become mechanical.

 

So, the suffix -ity does more than change grammar. It shifts the focus:

• from person to religious performance and doctrinal formation
• from disciple to doctrinal conformity
• from following Christ to adhering to religious activities

 

These distinctions can be more than descriptive; they can be dangerous:

 

“Christian” asks, ‘Who am I following?’

“Christianity” asks, ‘What does my church tell me to believe, and how does it expect me to behave?’

 

Or even more sharply:

Jesus called people to follow Him in character and allegiance, but history has produced Christianity as adherence to a framework of beliefs and religious activities.

 

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A REFLECTION

 

The difference between Christian and Christianity is more than grammatical.

 

A Christian is a person centered in Christ, called to follow Jesus in trust, obedience, love, and surrender.

 

Christianity is the larger religious world that embodies beliefs, traditions, institutions, systems, customs, denominations, debates, and cultures.

One word points to a disciple; the other points to the movement, structure, and history surrounding disciples. That does not make Christianity wrong, but it does make it secondary. Jesus did not say, “Build an -ity.” He called people to follow Him.

 

So, the better question may be: “Have we confused being Christian with managing Christianity?” Have we become more devoted to our expression of the faith than to the living Christ at the center of faith? The suffix changes the focus from faith in Christ to belief about Christ, substitutes religious activities for the relationship with Christ, and trades participation in a movement for commitment to an organization.

 

And that is why and where our needed reimagining begins.

 

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ESSAY - Version 1

 

Christian or Christianity?

Why the suffix matters more than we may realize

At first glance, the difference between Christian and Christianity may seem small, merely a matter of grammar. But the shift from one word to the other may reveal more than vocabulary. It may uncover one of the most important tensions in the life of the Church.

 

A Christian is a person.
A disciple.
A follower of Jesus Christ.

 

The word points to identity, allegiance, relationship, and way of life. To be Christian is to belong to Christ, to trust Him, to obey Him, to walk with Him, and to be formed by His presence and teachings.

 

But Christianity is something different.

Christianity refers to the religion, tradition, doctrines, institutions, customs, denominations, habits, systems, and historical expressions that have developed around those who follow Christ. It is the accumulated structure surrounding the life of Christians.

 

That does not make Christianity bad. Structure is not the enemy. Theology matters. Doctrine matters. Gathered worship matters. Shared practices matter. The Church must teach, organize, preserve truth, encourage believers, and embody the Gospel in community. In that sense, Christianity can serve the life of Christians well.

 

But the suffix -ity shifts the emphasis.

It turns our attention from the person to the doctrine, from the seeker to the system, from the living act of following Jesus to the collective framework that has grown up around that following.

 

And that is where we must be careful. And honest. And courageous.

 

Because what begins as a movement of surrendered people can gradually harden into a managed religion. What begins as love for Christ can become loyalty to a brand, a tribe or traditions, comfort in an institutional identity, or a commitment to protect a specific comprehension of the Gospel.

 

What begins as spiritual life can become devotion to religious rituals.

Jesus called people to follow Him.

History built Christianity around that call...but they are not the same thing.

 

A Christian asks:
            Am I trusting Christ?
            Am I obeying Christ?
            Am I becoming like Christ?
            Am I aware of His presence and responsive to His voice?

 

Christianity often asks:
            What do we believe?
            What do we practice?
            How do we organize?
            How do we preserve our tradition?
            How do we defend our system?

 

Both sets of questions have value. But when the second set replaces the first, something essential is lost.

A person can be deeply involved in Christianity and yet only distantly attentive to Christ.

 

A church can be strong in programs, polished in worship, clear in doctrine, active in ministry, and still fail to cultivate a lived awareness of Jesus Himself.

 

We can preach Christ without practicing His presence. We can defend

Christian values without yielding to Christ’s rule. We can excel at Christianity while neglecting the Christ who stands at its center.

 

That may be why this distinction matters so much today.

 

In an age of spiritual wandering, institutional suspicion, and widespread confusion, many are not merely rejecting Christ. Often, they are reacting to forms of Christianity that seem overly enculturated, blatantly political, routinely mechanical, or completely disconnected from the words and the way of Jesus.

 

Whether every criticism is fair is not the point. The deeper issue is this: have we made Christianity more visible than Christ?

 

Perhaps one of the most needed acts of reimagining in our time is to ask whether our ministries are producing a bigger or more attractive Christianity, or a deeper Christian-ness exhibited by those who follow Christ as Lord.

• Are we creating more religious consumers, or more surrendered disciples?
• Are we preserving a system and programs, or cultivating a relational experience?
• Are we asking people to admire Christianity, or to abide in Christ?

 

The goal is not to discard Christianity. The goal is to ensure that Christianity serves Christ rather than substitutes for Him.

So perhaps the better question is not, “How do we save Christianity?”

Perhaps the prior question is, “How do we re-center Christ within everything Christianity has become?”

 

Because the Church is healthiest when Christianity is not the center.
Christ is.

And Christians are those who know the difference.

 

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DISCUSSION PROMPTS

 

Christian or Christianity?

A Christian is a person who follows Christ.

Christianity is the religious system, tradition, structure, and culture that has grown up around that following.

 

That distinction raises an uncomfortable but necessary question:

 

Have we become more skilled at managing Christianity than at following Christ?

Or

How do we make room for Christ to guide and guard this moment?

1. In our ministry setting, what do people encounter most clearly: Christ Himself or our version of Christianity?
2. Where have our traditions and structures served discipleship well?
3. Where might those same structures now be obscuring simplicity of devotion to Jesus?
4. Are we forming people to be loyal to Christ, or mainly to a church culture, doctrinal tribe, or ministry model?
5. What would change in our meetings, preaching, discipleship, worship, and leadership if our first question became:

 

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CONVERSATION STARTERS

1. In our ministry setting, what do people encounter most clearly:
   Christ Himself or our version of Christianity?
2. Where have our traditions, systems, programs, and habits served discipleship well?
3. Where might those same structures now be obscuring simplicity of devotion to Jesus?
4. Are we forming people to be loyal to Christ, or mainly to a church culture, doctrinal tribe, or ministry model?
5. What elements of our ministry are unmistakably Christ-centered?
   What elements are merely Christianized?
6. If Jesus attended our gathering, what would He affirm?
   What might He interrupt?
   What might He re-center?
7. In what ways have we confused:
   • information about Christ with intimacy with Christ
   • ministry for Christ with life in Christ
   • Christian activity with spiritual surrender
8. What would change in our meetings, preaching, discipleship, worship, and leadership if our first question became:
   “How do we make room for Christ to guide and guard this moment?”

 

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CHALLENGE

Do not ask only: How can we strengthen Christianity?

Also ask: How can we help people become more consciously, joyfully, obediently Christian — in living relationship with Jesus?

 

Because the future health of the Church may depend on whether Christianity once again learns to bow before Christ.

 

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ESSAY - Version 2

 

Have We Confused Being Christian with Managing Christianity?

 

Why the suffix matters—and why this distinction may help us re-center Christ

 

At first glance, the difference between Christian and Christianity may seem minor, merely grammatical. But the shift from one word to the other reveals far more than vocabulary. It uncovers a distinction that may help us rethink discipleship, ministry, and the future of the Church.

 

A Christian is a person.
A disciple.
A follower of Jesus Christ.

 

The word points to identity, allegiance, relationship, and way of life. To be Christian is to belong to Christ, to trust Him, to obey Him, to walk with Him, and to be formed by His presence and teachings.

 

But Christianity is broader.

Christianity refers to the religion, tradition, doctrines, institutions, customs, denominations, habits, systems, and historical expressions that have developed around those who follow Christ. It is the accumulated structure surrounding the life of Christians.

 

That does not make Christianity bad. Theology matters. Doctrine matters. Gathered worship matters. Shared practices matter. The Church must teach, organize, preserve truth, encourage believers, and embody the Gospel in community. In that sense, Christianity can serve Christians well.

 

But the suffix -ity shifts the emphasis.

 

It moves our attention from the person to the platform, from the disciple to the system, from the living act of following Jesus to the collective framework that has grown up around that following.

And that is where we must be careful.

Because what begins as a movement of surrendered people can gradually harden into a managed religion. What begins as love for Christ can become loyalty to a tribe, a tradition, a culture, or an institutional identity. What begins as spiritual life can become religious maintenance.

 

Jesus called people to follow Him.
History built Christianity around that call.

Those are not the same thing.

 

A Christian asks:

Am I trusting Christ?
Am I obeying Christ?
Am I becoming like Christ?
Am I aware of His presence and responsive to His voice?

 

Christianity often asks:

What do we believe?
What do we practice?
How do we organize?
How do we preserve our tradition?
How do we defend our system?

 

Both sets of questions have value. But when the second set replaces the first, something essential is lost.

 

A person can be deeply involved in Christianity and yet only distantly attentive to Christ.

 

A church can be strong in programs, polished in worship, clear in doctrine, active in ministry, and still fail to cultivate a lived awareness of Jesus Himself.

We can preach Christ without practicing His presence. We can defend Christian values without yielding to Christ’s rule. We can excel at Christianity while neglecting the Christ who stands at its center.

 

That may be why this distinction matters so much now.

 

In an age of spiritual weariness, institutional suspicion, and widespread confusion, many are not merely reacting to Christ. Often they are reacting to forms of Christianity that feel overly cultural, political, mechanical, or disconnected from the spirit and way of Jesus.

 

Whether every criticism is fair is not the point.

 

The deeper issue is this:
Have we made Christianity more visible than Christ?

 

Perhaps one of the most needed acts of reimagining in our time is to ask whether our ministries are producing better Christianity or deeper Christian-ness.

 

Are we creating more religious consumers, or more surrendered disciples?

Are we preserving a system, or cultivating a relationship?

Are we asking people to admire Christianity, or to abide in Christ?

 

The goal is not to discard Christianity. The goal is to ensure that Christianity serves Christ rather than substitutes for Him.

 

So perhaps the better question is not,
“How do we save Christianity?”

 

Perhaps the prior question is,
“How do we re-center Christ within everything Christianity has become?”

 

Because the Church is healthiest when Christianity is not the center.
Christ is.

And Christians are those who know the difference

 

 

 

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SCRIPTURE DISCUSSION - Handouts

 

Jesus’ Sharpest Rebukes

Jesus’ sharpest rebukes were not aimed at pagans, unbelievers, or “sinners,” but at deeply religious people who knew the language of God yet resisted the living Christ standing before them.

That reality deserves more than agreement. It invites self-examination. It asks whether we have learned to speak Christian language, practice Christian habits, defend Christian positions, and build Christian structures while failing to yield to Christ Himself.

This handout is designed to help leaders, teachers, and groups reflect on that danger honestly—and courageously.

1) Warning Texts

Scriptures that expose religion without relationship

Matthew 15:1-9
Jesus warns that human tradition can overrule the Word of God, producing lips that honor God while hearts remain far from Him.
Reflection: Where have our traditions become more protected than our obedience?

Mark 7:1-13
Religious habits can become substitutes for submission to God’s intent.
Reflection: What are we doing “for God” that may actually keep us from hearing God?

Matthew 23:1-7
Jesus exposes leaders who teach truth publicly but do not embody it personally.
Reflection: Where is there a gap between what we say and how we live?

Matthew 23:13
Religious leadership can become so distorted that it closes the kingdom to the very people it should be leading toward God.
Reflection: Are any of our systems making access to Jesus harder rather than clearer?

Matthew 23:23-28
Jesus condemns a spirituality obsessed with externals while neglecting justice, mercy, faithfulness, and inner purity.
Reflection: What outward strengths might be hiding inward weakness?

Luke 11:39-44
He confronts those who clean the outside while remaining inwardly full of greed, pride, and spiritual decay.
Reflection: What appearances are we maintaining that Christ may want to expose?

Luke 11:42
They were careful about religious detail while neglecting justice and the love of God.
Reflection: What have we majored on that may not matter most to Jesus?

Luke 12:1
Jesus calls hypocrisy the “yeast of the Pharisees,” warning that false religion spreads quietly and corrupts widely.
Reflection: What attitudes in our church culture may be contagious in the wrong way?

Luke 16:14-15
Jesus exposes the gap between what religious people esteem publicly and what God sees truly.
Reflection: What do we value most—and would Jesus value it the same way?

Luke 18:9-14
The Pharisee and the tax collector reveal the difference between self-congratulating religion and humble dependence on mercy.
Reflection: Are we more impressed by our faithfulness than broken by our need?

John 5:39-40
They searched the Scriptures diligently yet refused to come to Jesus for life.
Reflection: Are we studying Christ while resisting deeper surrender to Christ?

2 Timothy 3:5
Some maintain a form of godliness while denying its power.
Reflection: Where do we have form without transforming presence?

Titus 1:16
Some claim to know God, but their lives contradict that confession.
Reflection: What does our behavior say that our theology would deny?

Revelation 2:1-5
A church can be orthodox, active, and persevering, yet still abandon its first love.
Reflection: Have we lost love while preserving labor?

Revelation 3:1-3
A congregation may have a reputation for life while actually being dead.
Reflection: Are we living on reputation rather than spiritual reality?

Revelation 3:15-20
Religious self-sufficiency can become so complete that Christ stands outside knocking.
Reflection: In what ways might Jesus be outside what we are doing in His name?

Ask Better Questions

• In what ways are we protecting traditions that no longer help us follow Jesus?
• What do we do well that may no longer be spiritually alive?
• Have we become more skilled at appearing faithful than at remaining surrendered?

2) Re-Centering Texts

Scriptures that call us back to Christ Himself

Colossians 1:18
Christ is to have first place in everything, not merely a place within our systems and ministries.
Reflection: In what practical ways does Christ currently have first place among us?

Colossians 2:6-8
Continue living in Christ; do not be taken captive by hollow ideas and human tradition.
Reflection: What is shaping us more than Christ right now?

Colossians 2:16-19
Religious practices become dangerous when they detach us from the Head, who is Christ Himself.
Reflection: What are we holding onto that may no longer be helping us hold fast to Christ?

John 15:4-5
Jesus makes it plain that fruit comes from abiding in Him, not merely working for Him.
Reflection: Are we abiding in Christ, or just being active for Him?

John 17:3
Eternal life is knowing the Father through the Son, not merely identifying with religion.
Reflection: How are we nurturing actual knowing, not just believing?

John 21:15-17
Before Jesus recommissions Peter to serve, He first asks whether Peter loves Him.
Reflection: Has love for Jesus become secondary to labor for Jesus?

Hebrews 12:1-2
Believers are called to run by fixing their eyes on Jesus.
Reflection: What has captured our gaze more than Christ?

1 Corinthians 3:11
No true foundation for the Church exists apart from Jesus Christ.
Reflection: What have we built on top of Christ that now competes with Christ?

Colossians 3:16-17
The word of Christ is to dwell richly so that everything is done in His name.
Reflection: Is the word of Christ dwelling among us, or are we relying on borrowed language and religious momentum?

Ephesians 1:22-23
Christ is Head over everything for the sake of the Church.
Reflection: Where are we acting as though our ministry belongs to us?

Acts 13:2
The gathered church worshiped the Lord and listened for the Spirit.
Reflection: Do our meetings make room for Christ’s direction, or only for our agenda?

Matthew 12:6
Jesus tells the Pharisees that something greater than the temple is here.
Reflection: Have we become more attached to structure than to the Savior?

John 14:15
Love for Jesus is verified in responsive obedience.
Reflection: Where is Jesus asking for obedience, not just admiration?

Galatians 2:20
The Christian life is participation in the life of Christ within us.
Reflection: Are we teaching people how to live with Christ, or merely how to think about Christianity?

Ask Better Questions

• Is Christ central in our language only, or in our lived experience?
• What would it look like for Jesus to be invited into everything we do?
• How do we make room for Christ to guide and guard us as we plan and make decisions?

3) Courage-to-Change Texts

Scriptures that call for honesty, repentance, and bold reordering

Romans 12:2
Transformation begins when we refuse conformity and allow God to renew the way we think.
Reflection: What mindset must change before any ministry practice can change?

Joshua 1:9
God commands courage because His presence goes with His people.
Reflection: What needed change have we avoided because of fear?

Acts 4:19-20, 29-31
The early church asked for boldness to obey God faithfully in the face of resistance.
Reflection: Where do we need courage to obey rather than merely preserve peace?

James 1:22-25
The Word must move beyond hearing into obedient practice.
Reflection: What truth do we already know but have not yet acted on?

Ephesians 4:22-24
Genuine change requires putting off old patterns, being renewed inwardly, and putting on a new way of life.
Reflection: What old ministry habits need to be put off?

Philippians 2:12-13
God is at work within His people, giving both desire and power to obey.
Reflection: Are we depending on effort alone instead of God’s inner work?

2 Timothy 1:7
Fear is not the spirit God gives; He gives power, love, and disciplined courage.
Reflection: What fear has kept us from re-centering Christ?

Hebrews 10:19-23
Because of Christ, believers can draw near confidently and hold fast without wavering.
Reflection: What gives us confidence to make needed changes?

Haggai 1:2-8
God calls His people to re-evaluate misplaced priorities and rebuild around what honors Him.
Reflection: What are we building that matters less than what God is asking?

2 Corinthians 13:5
Self-examination is necessary if we are to discern whether Christ is truly central.
Reflection: What would happen if we honestly tested our ministry by Christ’s presence rather than by results?

Galatians 5:1
Christ sets people free, and that freedom must not be traded back for bondage.
Reflection: What religious burdens have we normalized that Christ may want to remove?

Ask Better Questions

• What do we need to stop doing in order to re-center Christ?
• Where is repentance required, not just improvement?
• What would courageous obedience look like this month, not merely someday?

“Starter Set”

Warning

Matthew 15:1-9
Tradition can replace obedience and heart-nearness to God.

Matthew 23:23-28
External righteousness can conceal inward disorder.

Luke 11:42
Religious precision without justice and love is spiritually hollow.

Luke 18:9-14
Self-trusting religion and humble repentance are not the same thing.

John 5:39-40
Searching Scripture is not enough if we refuse to come to Christ Himself.

Re-centering

Colossians 1:18
Christ must be supreme in everything.

Colossians 2:6-8
Continue in Christ; do not drift into captivity to human systems.

John 15:4-5
Abiding in Christ is the source of true fruitfulness.

John 21:15-17
Love for Jesus must precede labor for Jesus.

1 Corinthians 3:11
Every ministry must return to Christ as its only foundation.

Courage to change

Romans 12:2
Renewed thinking is the doorway to transformed ministry.

Acts 4:29-31
Boldness is needed when obedience requires disruption.

James 1:22-25
Insight without action leaves the heart unchanged.

2 Timothy 1:7
God supplies courage for necessary change.

2 Corinthians 13:5
Honest examination is a grace, not a threat.

Group discussion guide

1. Which warning text most describes the danger facing the Church today? Why?
2. Which re-centering text best expresses your heart for ministry?
3. Which courage-to-change text feels most necessary for your church or leadership team right now?
4. Where have we confused:

• knowing about Christ with knowing Christ
• serving Christ with surrendering to Christ
• preserving Christianity with following Jesus

5. What is one specific change we sense Jesus asking of us?

Challenge

Jesus did not rebuke religious people because they cared too much about God, but because they had learned to manage religion without surrendering to the Christ who stood in their midst.

So, the question is not only whether we are Christian in name or whether we participate in Christianity as a system.

The deeper question is this:

Are we making room for the living Christ to lead from the center, interrupt, correct, and reshape how we proceed?

 

 

 

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TEACHING / DISCUSSION - Option 1

 

Christian: a person who follows Christ

 

Christianity: the religion, system, traditions, and institutions built around the teachings and truths of Jesus Christ.

 

CHRISTIAN or CHRISTIANITY?

A Christian is a follower of Christ.
Christianity is the religious system that grew around those followers.

 

One is personal.
One is institutional.

One is discipleship.
One is structure.

One is allegiance to Jesus.
One is the accumulated expression of that allegiance.

 

The question is not whether Christianity exists.
The question is whether the form of Christianity we embody still keeps Christ at the center of worship, discipleship, fellowship, stewardship, and missional living.

 

Teaching / Discussion - Option 2

 

What changed when Christian became Christian-ity?

The suffix shifted the focus:

            from personal
            to systemic

            from disciple-driven
            to religion-based

            from following Christ
            to managing what has grown up around Christ

Jesus calls us first, not to pursue Christianity, but to follow Him.

 

Teaching / Discussion - Option 3

 

“Christian” names the follower.
“Christianity” names the framework.

 

A Christian is a disciple.

Christianity is the faith tradition, culture, doctrine, and institution built around a local or theologically-compatible community of disciples.

 

When the framework serves the follower, it helps.
When the framework replaces the Followed One, it hinders.

 

 

 

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QUOTES

 

Jesus called people to follow Him; the Church has built Christianity around that call.

 

The suffix -ITY shifts the focus from the person to teachings and a system, from disciple-making to maintaining programs and structure.

 

We can become skilled at managing Christianity while neglecting the Christ at its center.

 

The goal is not to discard Christianity but to ensure it serves Christ.

 

Thought-Provoking Headlines

• Have We Confused Being Christian with Managing Christianity?
• Christian or Christianity? Why the Difference Matters
• When Following Christ Becomes a System
• ReCenter Christ: From Christianity Back to Christian
• The Difference Between a Disciple and a Religious Framework
• Why -ITY matters and why this distinction may help us re-center Christ
• A needed distinction for pastors, leaders, and churches seeking renewal
• When religion grows larger than relationship
• How one small ending exposes one large problem
• A reflection on discipleship, structure, and the living presence of Jesus

 

 

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GUEST - POST

The Insufficiency of Cultural Christianity

​by Eddie LaRow in "Mere Orthodoxy On Substack)

Cultural Christianity isn’t going to cut it - though there are benefits to cultural Christianity. Carl Trueman is onto something when he identifies its lack of staying power. Here is his critique. It is worth quoting at length:

“While the revival of interest in religion among cultural elites is welcome, I believe it will prove as ephemeral as that of the mid-twentieth century unless it grapples not simply with the perceived cultural benefits of Christianity but also with its truth claims. It may be a captivating aesthetic experience to attend a Latin Mass where the choir sings the words to the polyphonic compositions of Palestrina. The Book of Common Prayer might give a certain pleasure on a Sunday morning. The great architecture and art that Christianity inspired might enrich one’s life. But if one does not believe that the religious dogmas that are the basis of these things are true and not merely inspiring fictions, then that is not a faith that will prove durable as the wider culture exhausts itself. Indeed, it merely perpetuates one of the most distinctive and problematic aspects of modern culture: the confusion of taste for truth.”

That last line — “the confusion of taste for truth” — captures Trueman’s essential point. ​Without a clearly delineated ethical standard ​(Christianity) merely amounts to vibes and feelings — “I feel like there’s more to this life.” Certainly. But what is the “more”? This is where consecration comes in. Christianity is more than feeling; it is a comprehensive worldview which makes truth claims about the individual and society. “Nebulous re-enchantment,” as Trueman calls it, cannot directly confront the assault on the holy perpetuated by secular culture.

 

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