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Book SynopsisEver since Max Weber's study of the role Protestantism played in our civilization, the role of Christianity in our world has been much debated. This work is addressed to those interested in a return to the Biblical message as opposed to what institutionalized Christianity has made of it.
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction A Secular Way of Life in Search of Spirituality? Where Are We and What Have We Done? Seeing and Listening People of a Time, Place, and Culture People of a Time, Place, and Universal Technical Order People of the Word 1 The Possibility and Impossibility of Living a Secular Life How Secular Have We Become? Language, Swearing, and the Sacred A Creation for Freedom without a Sacred A Creation for Love without Eros 2 The Roots of a Non-secular Life: Religion and Morality as Symptoms of Evil Uprooting and Re-rooting the Creation’s Fabric of Relationships The End of Secular Human Life God's Covenant and Humanity's Life Support The Beginning of Human History A New Beginning without God 3 Language, Myth, and History Making a Name The Word, Human Words, and Cultures Socially and Historically Naming Ourselves Culture and Revelation The Subversion of Symbolization 4 Born Neither Free nor Equal, but Loved An Enslaved Humanity The Flesh and the World A World Ruled by Principalities and Powers The Demonic Powers The Satanic Powers Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse The City as the Seat of the Powers 5 The Law, the Spirit, and the Kingdom of Heaven The Law and the Jewish People The Law of Freedom The Spirit The Kingdom of Heaven 6 Christianity in the Grip of Vanity and Chasing after the Wind Why Give the Last Word to Qohelet? Vanity and Myths Wisdom and Myths God and Our Myths Epilogue Notes Index
