{"product_id":"secular-nations-under-new-gods-christianitys-subversion-by-technology-and-politics-paperback-softback-9781487523039","title":"Secular Nations Under New Gods; Christianity's Subversion by Technology and Politics (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487523039","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSecular Nations Under New Gods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eChristianity's Subversion by Technology and Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWillem H. Vanderburg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487523039\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ongoing political muscle-flexing of diverse Christian communities in North America raises some deeply troubling questions regarding their roles among us. Earlier analyses including Herberg\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eProtestant, Catholic, Jew \u003c\/i\u003eshowed that these three branches of the Judaeo-Christian tradition correspond to three forms of the American way of life; while Kruse\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eOne Nation Under God \u003c\/i\u003eshowed how Christian America was shaped by corporate America. Willem H. Vanderburg\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eSecular Nations under New Gods \u003c\/i\u003eproceeds based on a dialogue between Jacques Ellul\u0026amp;#x2019;s interpretation of the task of Christians in the world and Ellul\u0026amp;#x2019;s interpretation of the roles of technique and the nation-state in individual and collective human life. He then adds new insight into our being a symbolic species dealing with our finitude by living through the myths of our society and building new secular forms of moralities and religions. If everything is political and if everything is amenable to discipline-based scientific and technical approaches, we are perhaps treating these human creations the way earlier societies did their gods, as being omnipotent, without limits. Vanderburg argues that until organized Christianity becomes critically aware of sharing these commitments with their societies, it will remain entrapped in the service of false gods and thereby will continue to turn a message of freedom and love into one of morality and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Secular Way of Life in Search of Spirituality?\u003cbr\u003eWhere Are We and What Have We Done?\u003cbr\u003eSeeing and Listening\u003cbr\u003ePeople of a Time, Place, and Culture\u003cbr\u003ePeople of a Time, Place, and Universal Technical Order\u003cbr\u003ePeople of the Word\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Possibility and Impossibility of Living a Secular Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Secular Have We Become?\u003cbr\u003eLanguage, Swearing, and the Sacred\u003cbr\u003eA Creation for Freedom without a Sacred\u003cbr\u003eA Creation for Love without Eros\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Roots of a Non-secular Life: Religion and Morality as Symptoms of Evil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eUprooting and Re-rooting the Creation\u0026amp;#x2019;s Fabric of Relationships\u003cbr\u003eThe End of Secular Human Life \u003cbr\u003eGod's Covenant and Humanity's Life Support\u003cbr\u003eThe Beginning of Human History\u003cbr\u003eA New Beginning without God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Language, Myth, and History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking a Name\u003cbr\u003eThe Word, Human Words, and Cultures\u003cbr\u003eSocially and Historically Naming Ourselves\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Revelation\u003cbr\u003eThe Subversion of Symbolization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Born Neither Free nor Equal, but Loved\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Enslaved Humanity\u003cbr\u003eThe Flesh and the World\u003cbr\u003eA World Ruled by Principalities and Powers\u003cbr\u003eThe Demonic Powers\u003cbr\u003eThe Satanic Powers\u003cbr\u003eThree Horsemen of the Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003eThe City as the Seat of the Powers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Law, the Spirit, and the Kingdom of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Law and the Jewish People\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Freedom\u003cbr\u003eThe Spirit\u003cbr\u003eThe Kingdom of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Christianity in the Grip of Vanity and Chasing after the Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy Give the Last Word to Qohelet?\u003cbr\u003eVanity and Myths\u003cbr\u003eWisdom and Myths\u003cbr\u003eGod and Our Myths\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595499696408,"sku":"9781487523039","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/secular-nations-under-new-gods-christianitys-subversion-by-technology-and-politics-paperback-softback-9781487523039","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}