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TGC Podcast

1776: The Origin Story of the Post-Christian West

Jun 28, 2024
45:34

The year 1776 remade the world. In one extraordinary year, a combination of books, ships, machines, inventions, paintings, and declarations created a new cultural landscape that we could characterize as WEIRDER: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic, Ex-Christian, and Romantic.

In this breakout session from TGC23, Andrew Wilson teaches how these different transformations came together to shape our world—how the church of 1776 responded and what we can learn from them.

Read Andrew Wilson's book, Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

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