Modernity, Secularism, and the Struggle for a Christian Civilization

November 21st, 2025 | 7 min read

Jean Daniélou. Prayer as a Political Problem. Cluny Media, 2020 (reprint edition). $19.95. 130 pp.

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John D. Wilsey is Chair of the Church History Department and Professor of Church History and Philosophy at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, and the author, most recently, of Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer (Eerdmans, 2025).

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