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Secular Nations under New Gods - Christianity's Subversion by Technology and Politics (Paperback)
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Secular Nations under New Gods - Christianity's Subversion by Technology and Politics (Paperback)
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The 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's Protestant, Catholic, Jew showed that these three
branches of the Judaeo-Christian tradition correspond to three
forms of the American way of life; while Kruse's One Nation Under
God showed how Christian America was shaped by corporate America.
Willem H. Vanderburg's Secular Nations under New Gods proceeds
based on a dialogue between Jacques Ellul's interpretation of the
task of Christians in the world and Ellul'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.
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