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Loss and Recovery of Transcendence in our Contemporary Culture

Speaker(s): James Houston
Date: May 26-June 6, 2008
Length: 14:30:33
Product ID: RGDL3814S

Description

The political prominence of a 'Christian Religious culture' in North America makes us all the more exposed to the secularization of contemporary Christianity.

The political prominence of a 'Christian Religious culture' in North America makes us all the more exposed to the secularization of contemporary Christianity. This course will broadly survey contributory causes for the loss of transcendence today, in contrast to its devotional expressions in the history of the Church. Such traditional issues as 'the fear of the Lord,' God and history, education by exemplars, prayer-meditation-contemplation, contrition and confession, Heaven-Purgatory- Hell, biblical authority, Sabbath rest, mission and sacrifice, and now spiritual discernment and direction, have formed a sequence in the life of devotion, which will be studied historically and applied contemporaneously. Lectures include:

• The Abolition of Man
• The Technological Society
• The Death of the Past
• The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
• Whatever Became of Sin?
• The Loss of the Soul
• The Recovery of Psalmnody
• Christianity and the Meaning of History
• Biblical Eschatology and Modernity
• Persons, Human and Divine

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