Carl F. H. Henry on “Spiritual Obtuseness”

I came across this the other day while doing some research and thought I’d pass it along. 

Why does the modern world so comfortably chain its passions to power, lucre and sex, instead of harnessing itself to God in his revelation?  The answer lies not in any intrinsic weakness of Christianity, not in any peculiar contemporary antipathy for the gospel, and not even in the theological, evangelistic and social failures of the past generation of believers.  The fault lies in timid preaching of God’s revelation by professional pulpiteers, in presumptuous tampering with God’s revelation by contemporary critics, and in subtle evasions of God’s revelation not only in ecclesiastical bureaucracies and in seminary classrooms but also in the lives of many who are church-identified.  The Word of the Lord is not being sounded in the land as it ought, and without the vision of God and his holy will people are miring daily into deeper carnality and spiritual obtuseness (Scripture calls it “blindness”).

Carl F. H. Henry, “The Awesome Disclosure of God” in God, Revelation, and Authority. vol. II (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1999), 22-23.