Beyond the modern age an archaeology of contemporary culture
The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving--deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends o...
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Downers Grove, Illinois :
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press,
[2017].
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Starting with our students' experiences
- Part 1. The archaeology of modernity. The classical modern worldview
- The structural and cultural critiques of modernity
- Modern ideologies and the postmodern worldview
- Evaluating modernity's four worldviews
- Part 2. Transcendence and modernity: resources for moving beyond modernity. Meaning from outside: reengagement with religion?
- Culture and religion: Philip Reiff's sacred sociology
- Becoming human: desire, violence, and René Girard
- Modernity, pluralism, and God
- The starving Christ and a preferential option for the poor
- Part 3. Finding ways beyond modernity. Engaging the contemporary crisis
- Ways forward for economic life and global climate change
- Epilogue by Mark Vander Vennen: Bob Goudzwaard's faith-filled witness in politics.