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

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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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James M. Houston is Board of Governors' Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Previously, he was University Lecturer at Oxford University. He is author of I Believe in the Creator, In Search of Happiness, The Heart's Desire: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment, The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God., Joyful Exiles, and Letters of Faith Through the Seasons.