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| Titre : | Idols for Destruction : Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Society |
| Auteurs : | Schlossberg Herbert |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Nashville, Camden, New-York [USA] : Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1983 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8407-5832-3 |
| Format : | iii + 344 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | In this lucid and disturbing analysis of American culture, Herbert Schlossberg argues that the biblical concepts of idolatry and judgment provide the best models for understanding the despair in our society today. |
| Note de contenu : |
Acknowledgments & Introduction CHAPTER ONE / Idols of History History as a Religious Enterprise - The Cult of Historicism - History as Lord of the Universe - Getting in Step with History - Inevitable Progress - La Trahison des Clercs: History as a Polemical Device - The Historical Profession - The Myth of the Seamless Web - The Christian View of History- God’s Action in History - Judgment - Judgment and Mercy -Consequences of the Christian View of History CHAPTER TWO / Idols of Humanity Human Beings as Gods - The Ethics of Antinomianism - The Function of Law as Ethical Foundation - Subjective Pragmatism – Humanitarianism - Ressentiment - Equalitarianism – The Misuse of Guilt - The Poverty Issue - Poverty and Culture - Poverty and Work - Poverty and Dependency - The Curse of Ontological Victimhood - The Poor Countries - Domination by Classification - The Exercise of Power - Issues of Life and Death - The Degradation of Humanity - The Irrationality of Humanism - Humanism and the Future CHAPTER THREE / Idols of Mammon Covetousness and Theft - The Alchemist as Thief - Inflation - The Role of Banking in the Inflationary Process - Politics and Inflation - Inflation as Redistribution - The Consequences of Inflation - Envy and Economics - Morality and Economics - Materialism - Redistribution - Redistribution to the Rich - Redistribution to Business and Industry - The Political Payoff - The Politics of Pressure Groups - The Power of the State over Economic Life - Bureaucratic Domination - Price Controls - Autonomous Officialdom - The Failure to Invest - The Role of Profit in the Economy - The Onset of Poverty - Freedom and Coercion - The Evasion of Evil - The Failure of Mammon CHAPTER FOUR / Idols of Nature Nature and History - Nature as the Whole Show - Science as Religion - Social Science and Philosophical Materialism - The Eclipse of Materialism - Determinism - Social Science as Ideology - Reductionism and the Sociology of Knowledge - Reason as Lord of the Universe - The Triumph of the Irrational - Assault From the East - Nature as Lord of the Universe - The Effects of Naturalist Irrationality - The Cult of Narcissism - A World Become Spooky - Second Face of Janus - Nature in Control - The Riddle of the One and the Many - Prolegomena to Any Christian Epistemology CHAPTER FIVE / Idols of Power The Creation of Leviathan - God Marching on Earth - Only the State Can Save Us - A Moral Revolution - Our Father, the State - The State as Idol - Creating Utopia - The Rule of the Elite - The New Gnosticism - The Apotheosis of Power - Scholars- on-Pension - The Shepherds and the Sheep - Bureaucrats, Politicians, and the Exercise of Power - Khadi Law and the End of Justice - Power- Through the Religion of the Schools - Individualism and Its Enemies - Inferior Magistrates as Countervailing Powers - The Family Under Attack - The Attack on Economic Resistance to the State - Freedom as a Vice - The Question of Totalitarianism - The Vision of Global Unity - The Irrationality of Statism - The Sacralization of Power CHAPTER SIX / Idols of Religion Anti-Clericalism as a Biblical Theme - False Religion in the Early Church - The Conformity of American Religion - Loss of Intellectual Underpinnings - Humanism and the Church - The War Against Economics - Churches of the Messianic State - Theology in the Service of Revolution - Civil Religion and the Churches - The Checkered Church - Democratic Idolatry - The Kingdom Coopted CHAPTER SEVEN / Consequences and Expectations Understanding the Present and Forecasting the Future - History as a Moral Universe - Foul Is Useful and Fair Is Not - Moral Man and Immoral Society - Moralism and Guilt in the Absence of Morality - Paganism Revisited: The Mimetic Inversion - The Breakdown of Intellect - Religious Secularity - Manifestations of Religious Warfare - The End of Prosperity - A Society Feeding on Its Future - A Society Marked by Strife - Antinomianism as an Accompaniment to Decline - Ethics in a Post-Christian Society - The Drive for Power Accelerates - Poverty and Power - The Onset of Judgment - A Society Transformed CHAPTER EIGHT / The New Community The Dual Vision of Righteousness - Prolegomena to any Christian Metaphysic - Freedom and Responsibility - Prolegomena to any Christian Ethic - Idolatry and Injustice - Society and Its Dissenters - Defying Mammon - Responsibilities of the Rich and the Poor - The Stewardship of Wealth - Unity Among the Faithful - Defying the Powers - The Preservation of Intellect - Christ Against the World - Toward the Triumph of Justice - Persecution - Embarking on the Great Adventure Index |
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