Modernity has changed the very way that we look at life. It’s intrusion into our psyches has affected our capacity for truth, our desire to know God, and the ways in which we pursue these matters. Theology is disappearing in the Church because these values and habits of the modern world have intruded on the evangelical world. The powerful vision of a humanity corrupted by sin being released to stand before God in all His glory and converse with Him, gripped by the magnificent certainty of His truth, is now dying. While these items of belief are professed, they are increasingly being removed from the center of evangelical life where they defined what that life was, and they are now being relegated to the periphery where their power to define what evangelical life should be is lost.

This is not the sort of shift that typical polling will discover, for these items of belief are seldom denied or qualified, but that does not mean that the shift has not occurred. Evangelicalism may use a different language but nonetheless, it embraces the same habits of mind. Evangelicals are typically modern in their orientation. This book is insistently anti-modern. This difference in orientation to modernity leads to a stark difference in faith. Theology is considered "irrelevant" to real ministry and the church has cheerfully plunged into astonishing theological illiteracy imagining they are following a path to success.

But the effort to be both modern and Christian produces deep problems, for there is No Place For Truth in the modern world and the emptiness of evangelical faith without theology echoes the emptiness of the modern world. Unless the evangelical Church can recover the centrality of the Truth of God, it will have nothing "relevant" to say to the modern world. The author observes what he calls "a yawning chasm" between what evangelical faith was in the past and it’s contemporary emptiness and accommodation. He argues that those who are most relevant to this world are those who are judged most irrelevant.

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