This is the first in a series of quotes from the old ‘new’ book, Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World, by David F. Wells.
Now the divine imperative — “your will be done”– has gone and all that remains is the cacophony of opinions, the coercion of fashion, and the confusions of a broken world. The once grand, majestic purposes of God have slipped from our sight. Now what we see are only the blind workings of nature with their tragedies, the impersonal forces of the economy which often seem so callous, the malice of evil people, and the peculiar anxieties of those adrift in a sea of affluence.
249-250.
