The Gagging of God is an important work that should be read by serious Christian leaders. The subtitle to this massive book details the author’s thesis - "Christianity Confronts Pluralism." Highly respected author and scholar D.A. Carson documents how God is being gagged (silenced) both in our society and in the church, through the acceptance of pluralism and postmodernism. Topics covered include the new hermeneutics, secularism, presuppositional vs. evidential apologetics, selfism, God’s sovereignty, inclusivism, Hell, Outcome Based Education, the changing definition of evangelicalism, modern mysticism. Carson addresses the uniqueness of Christ and offers a thoughtful look at how to evangelize in a postmodern generation.

Of critical importance and what is surely cause for alarm is the way in which somewhat surprisingly, often unknowingly, pluralism has penetrated the evangelical camp via the felt-need gospel (along with the market driven church). "If postmodern thought has tried to gag God, unsuccessfully, by its radical hermeneutics and its innovative epistemology, the church is in danger of gagging God in quite another way. The church in Laodicea thought of itself as farsighted, respectable, basically well off. From the perspective of the exalted Christ, however, it was blind, naked, bankrupt. This church made the exalted Jesus gag. And I cannot escape the dreadful feeling that modern evangelicalism in the West more successfully effects the gagging of God, in this sense, than all the postmodernists together, in the other sense. The books on many church bookstalls are a disgrace—thousands of pages of sentimental twaddle laced with the occasional biblical gem. Part of what is needed in a renewed evangelical mind is learning to take on regnant paradigms and challenge them with a biblical worldview. Our whole aim must be to know God in the categories that He has himself provided."

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