Willem H. Vanderburg has taught preventive engineering, sociology, and environmental studies at the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto.

• PrefaceIntroductionA Secular Way of Life in Search of Spirituality?Where Are We and What Have We Done?Seeing and ListeningPeople of a Time, Place, and CulturePeople of a Time, Place, and Universal Technical OrderPeople of the Word1 The Possibility and Impossibility of Living a Secular LifeHow Secular Have We Become?Language, Swearing, and the SacredA Creation for Freedom without a SacredA Creation for Love without Eros2 The Roots of a Non-secular Life: Religion and Morality as Symptoms of EvilUprooting and Re-rooting the Creation’s Fabric of RelationshipsThe End of Secular Human Life God's Covenant and Humanity's Life SupportThe Beginning of Human HistoryA New Beginning without God3 Language, Myth, and HistoryMaking a NameThe Word, Human Words, and CulturesSocially and Historically Naming OurselvesCulture and RevelationThe Subversion of Symbolization4 Born Neither Free nor Equal, but LovedAn Enslaved HumanityThe Flesh and the WorldA World Ruled by Principalities and PowersThe Demonic PowersThe Satanic PowersThree Horsemen of the ApocalypseThe City as the Seat of the Powers5 The Law, the Spirit, and the Kingdom of HeavenThe Law and the Jewish PeopleThe Law of FreedomThe SpiritThe Kingdom of Heaven6 Christianity in the Grip of Vanity and Chasing after the WindWhy Give the Last Word to Qohelet?Vanity and MythsWisdom and MythsGod and Our MythsEpilogueNotesIndex