Christian Thinking
Here and now

“[T]he truths of Christian revelation, one and all, put this life decisively within the framework of a bigger one; and the Christian mind, thinking christianly, cannot for a moment escape a frame of reference which reaches out to the supernatural.

In this respect, the Christian mind has allowed itself to be subtly secularized by giving a purely chronological status to the eternal, That is to say, the Christian has relegated the significance of the eternal to the life that succeeds this one. In doing so, it has enabled itself to come to terms with the secular mind on a false basis. The basis is that here and now Christians and secularists can share the same conceptions, attitudes and modes of action within the temporal sphere, since the essential difference between them—i.e. the dispute whether or not there is God’s eternity beyond this world—is one which begins to be applicable only when this life is ended.”

Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind, How Should a Christian Think?,(Servant Books: Ann Arbor, Mi, 1963), pp. 69.