Preface
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