Weakened spirit of sacrifice

Tim Keller, citing Christopher Lasch and others on the inherent limitations of secular progressivism:

“Progressive ideology weakens the spirit of sacrifice,” Lasch writes. It cannot provide any effective antidote to despair, because the immediate pleasures are the whole point of history.¹

Footnotes

1. From “Making Sense of God,” p 157, where Keller is quoting Lasch and paraphrasing Robert Bellah. ↩