Why did the West, which was once so thoroughly influenced by the Christian faith, fall prey to secularization and privatism? . . . The key factor is the historical split between the secular and the sacred. This split occurred because the understanding of the incarnation was reduced from God who became the created order to God who stepped into the creation.
-Robert E. Webber, Who Gets to Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008), 74-75.