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“They are desperately reaching not just upwards but backwards. They yearn for a day gone by when things seemed more constant and less shallow. They want to tap into the treasures of the past as they search for staying power that seems unattainable in the present. They are weary of the pressure to become, while they long for the privilege to be. Therefore, they want different music (not just words but style) and different people with their sights set on a different world. They long for someone to speak to them with authority about someone other than themselves and about a time other than their own. They are not as interested in what they can become as in who they are and where they came from, historically speaking.” (Younger p. 128)

“I found the Enlightenment promise that all things, including satisfaction and contentment, could be found ‘this side of the ceiling’ was a lie.” (Tullian Tchividjian, Younger p. 127)

“Frei proposes a radical solution. Suppose we do not start with the modern world. Suppose we start with the bibical world, and let those narratives decide what’s real, so that our lives have meaning to the extent that we fit them into the framework. That is, after all, the way a great many Christians- Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin- read the Bible for a long time. If we do that, then the truth of the biblical narratives does not depend on connecting them to some other real world. They describe the real world.” (William C. Placher, Unapologetic Theology: A Christian Voice in a Pluralistic Conversation)

“The salvation story centers on the incarnation and subsequent events. God entered our history and became incarnate in Jesus. In the union of the divine with the human in the person of Jesus Christ came the “lifting up of human nature into an everlasting communication with the divine life.”(Ibid., 86)” (Younger p. 86)

“True freedom, which is the choice to be in union with God and with God’s will, is now lost.” (Younger p.86)

“Today, young people come to church because “it stands for something.” But the gospel it stands for is presented as “story,” not a noncontradictory, rationally defended, logically consistent fact apprehended by cognitive aquiescence.” (Younger p.49)