The secular city : secularization and urbanization in theological perspective
"The secular city has indeed become a religious cause celebre. It has earned a phenomenal readership--over a quarter of a million copies sold in little over a year--and inspired a heated controversy in the press and at every level of American society. The most articulate pro's and con's have already been collected and published in a volume entitled The secular City Debate. The debate continues. This NEW REVISED EDITION, in Harvey cox's words, "enables me to correct some of the more egregious overstatements, tone down an occasional vivid passage, and respond at points to helpful criticisms the book has elicited. I have made alterations in order to clarify my basic argument, not to change it. In short, I still stand by the major theses of Secular City without reservation."" - Publisher
xii, 244 pages ; 21 cm
1268747
Introduction: the epoch of the secular city
Part one: the coming of the secular city
1. The Biblical sources of secularization
Secularization versus secularism
Dimensions of secularization
Creation as the disenchantment of nature
The exodus as the desacralization of politics
The Sinai covenant as the deconsecration of values
2. The shape of the secular city
Anonymity
The man at the giant switchboard
Anonymity as deliverance from the law
Mobility
The man in the cloverleaf
Yahweh and the baalim
3. The style of the secular city
John f. kennedy and pragmatism
Albert camus and profanity
Tillich, barth and the secular style
4. The secular city in cross-cultural perspective
New delhi and india
Rome and western Europe-Prague and eastern Europe
Boston and the united states
Part two: the church in the secular city
5. Toward a theology of social change-The kingdom of God and the secular city
Anatomy of a revolutionary theology
6. The church as God's avant-garde
The church's kerygmatic function: broadcasting the seizure of power
The church's diakonic function: healing the urban fractures
The church's koinoniac function: making visible the city of man
7. the church as cultural exorcist
Part three: excursions in urban exorcism
8. Work and play in the secular city
The separation of places of work and residence
The bureaucratic organization of work
The emancipation of work from religion
9. Sex and secularization
The residue of tribalism
Remnants of town virtues
10. The church and the secular university
Part four: God and the secular man
11. To speak in a secular fashion of God
Speaking God as a sociological problem
Speaking of God as a political issue
Speaking of God as a theological question