It is the purpose of this paper to explicate the thesis that contemporary American Protestant Christian social and political thought in its prevailing tendencies is failing to fulfill its proper role—which role is to remind men of ends, purposes, and goals. This failure results from the fact that Protestant social and political theorists have exalted the so-called “Protestant principle” to a position of ultimacy and have thereby eschewed the difficult, but most essential, task of engaging in the definition of the nature of the good society.