TY - BOOK AU - Cox, Harvey Gallagher TI - The secular city: secularization and urbanization in theological perspective AV - BR115 .W6C65 1966 PY - 1966/// CY - New York, PB - Macmillan KW - 1. Church and the world. 2. City churches. 3. Cities and towns -- United States N1 - Contents: 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 ER -