Table of Contents
Introduction to the New Edition xi
The Secular City: Twenty-Five Years Later xli
Acknowledgments lix
Introduction: The Epoch of the Secular City 1
PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE SECULAR CITY 19
1 The Biblical Sources of Secularization 21
- Secularization vs. Secularism 22
- Dimensions of Secularization 26
- Creation as the Disenchantment of Nature 26
- The Exodus as the Desacralization of Politics 30
- The Sinai Covenant as the Deconsecration of Values 37
2 The Shape of the Secular City 46
- The Man at the Giant Switchboard 49
- Anonymity as Deliverance from the Law 56
Mobility 60
- The Man in the Cloverleaf 62
- Yahweh and the Baalim 65
3 The Style of the Secular City 72
- John F. Kennedy and Pragmatism 74
- Albert Camus and Profanity 84
- Tillich, Barth, and the Secular Style 94
4 The Secular City in Cross-Cultural Perspective 102
- New Delhi and India 104
- Rome and Western Europe 107
- Prague and Eastern Europe 110
- Boston and the United States 114
PART TWO: THE CHURCH IN THE SECULAR CITY 123
5 Toward a Theology of Social Change 125
- The Kingdom of God and the Secular City 131
- Anatomy of a Revolutionary Theology 135
6 The Church as God's Avant-garde 148
- The Church's Kerygmatic Function: Broadcasting the Seizure of Power 151
- The Church's Diakonic Function: Healing the Urban Fractures 157
- The Church's Koinoniac Function: Making Visible the City of Man 171
7 The Church as Cultural Exorcist 177
PART THREE: EXCURSIONS IN URBAN EXORCISM 195
8 Work and Play in the Secular City 197
- The Separation of Places of Work and Residence 198
- The Bureaucratic Organization of Work 204
- The Emancipation of Work from Religion 214
9 Sex and Secularization 227
- The Residue of Tribalism 228
- Remnants of Town Virtues 242
10 The Church and the Secular University 257
PART FOUR: GOD AND THE SECULAR MAN 283
11 To Speak in a Secular Fashion of God 285
- Speaking of God as a Sociological Problem 288
- Speaking of God as a Political Issue 294
- Speaking of God as a Theological Question 304
Bibliography 321
Index 329