Otherworldliness and the New Testament

"e;The one great and telling charge made against Christian religion in the modern period,"e; writes Amos Wilder, "e;is that it is otherworldly, escapist and irrelevant to the problems of life."e;There is a good deal of truth in this charge, Dr. Wilder feels--whether we look at Catholicism or Protestantism, orthodoxy or liberalism. Christianity, in one way or another, has given the impression of be...