The secular city secularization and urbanization in theological perspective Harvey Cox

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.