Beyond the Modern Age : An Archaeology of Contemporary Culture.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Starting with Our Students' Experiences -- Paradoxes in Modernity -- Conclusion -- PART ONE: The Archaeology of Modernity -- 1 The Classical Modern Worldview -- Back to the Origins 1: Medieval Society -- Back to the Origins 2: From Old Certainties to a New Certainty -- Back to the Origins 3: From Enlightenment to Revolution -- Conclusion -- 2 The Structural and Cultural Critiques of Modernity -- The Structural-Critical Modern Worldview -- The Cultural-Critical Modern Worldview -- 3 Modern Ideologies and the Postmodern Worldview -- Modern Ideologies -- Ideology and Modernity -- Alternatives to Ideologies? -- Contemporary Ideologies: Their Characteristics -- Identifying Contemporary ideologies -- Ideology and Radical Islam -- Ideology and Us -- The Postmodern Worldview -- The Main Themes of the Postmodern Worldview -- Conclusion -- 4 Evaluating Modernity's Four Worldviews -- The Most Urgent Challenges of Our Day -- Evaluating the Four Modern Worldviews -- The Dynamist Belief in Human Progress -- The Modern Ideology of Material Prosperity -- The Paradoxes of Modernity Revisited -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: Transcendence and Modernity: Resources for Moving Beyond Modernity -- 5 Meaning from Outside: Reengagement with Religion? -- The Return of Religion: The Many Altars of Modernity -- Philosophy and the Turn to Religion -- Religion and Secularization -- Healthy and Diseased Religion -- Why Late Modernity Needs to Attend to Religion -- Marks of Healthy Religion (Christianity) for Public Life -- Our Way Ahead -- 6 Culture and Religion: Philip Rieff's Sacred Sociology -- Philip Rieff and Sigmund Freud: Discerning the Heart of Modernity -- The "Abolition" of the Sacred: Our New Worldview -- Rieff's Three Ages.

Culture, Sacred Order, and the "Vertical in Authority" -- Third-World Culture -- Toward a Fourth Age: The Jew of Modernity -- Engagement and Evaluation: Prophet of a Post-Secular Culture? -- 7 Becoming Human: Desire, Violence, and René Girard -- David Hume: Reason and Passion -- René Girard and Mimetic Violence -- Desire and Religion -- The Bible and Mimetic Rivalry -- The Tenth Commandment: A Tale of Two Loves -- The Gateway of Mimetic Desire -- Mimetic Desire and the Gospels -- Christianity and Secularization -- Evaluation -- Being Human -- Being Human and Global Consumerism -- 8 Modernity, Pluralism, and God -- Nietzsche's Parable of the Madman Revisited . . . and Postponed -- Pluralism, Justice, and Western Culture -- Pluralism, Justice, and Enlightenment Values -- Lenn Goodman, John Rawls, and Pluralism -- The Kuyperian Tradition -- Nuanced Pluralism -- Global Pluralism -- The Living God and the Rebirth of Societies -- 9 The Starving Christ and a Preferential Option for the Poor -- A Voice and Open Hands for the Poor -- Jesus and the Poor -- The Christian Tradition and the Poor -- The Middle Ages and the Reformers -- The Modern World -- Conclusion -- Poverty Today -- A Preferential Option for the Poor -- The Starving Christ -- Summary -- PART THREE: Finding Ways Beyond Modernity -- 10 Engaging the Contemporary Crisis -- The Four Worldviews Revisited -- Facing the Problems, Seeking Ways Beyond -- The Interconnectedness of Today's Problems -- A Solution Impasse -- A Missing Dimension -- Ways of Seeing -- Two Visions of Economic Life -- The Economy of Care -- Directly Productive Labor and Transductive Labor -- Accountability in Economic Life -- 11 Ways Forward for Economic Life and Global Climate Change -- The Micro Level: Concrete Examples -- The Macro Level: Global Climate Change -- The Re-Entry of Faith -- A Way Forward.

A National and International Covenant -- Conclusion -- Epilogue by Mark Vander Vennen: Bob Goudzwaard's Faith-Filled Witness in Politics -- Parliamentary Life -- Labor Relations -- Global Poverty -- Hope and the Dignity of All -- Notes -- Introduction: Starting with Our Students' Experiences -- Chapter 1: The Classical Modern Worldview -- Chapter 2: The Structural and Cultural Critiques of Modernity -- Chapter 3: Modern Ideologies and the Postmodern Worldview -- Chapter 4: Evaluating Modernity's Four Worldviews -- Chapter 5: Meaning from Outside: Reengagement with Religion? -- Chapter 6: Culture and Religion: Philip Rieff's Sacred Sociology -- Chapter 7: Becoming Human: Desire, Violence, and René Girard -- Chapter 8: Modernity, Pluralism, and God -- Chapter 9: The Starving Christ and a Preferential Option for the Poor -- Chapter 10: Engaging the Contemporary Crisis -- Chapter 11: Ways Forward for Economic Life and Global Climate Change -- Epilogue by Mark Vander Vennen: Bob Goudzwaard's Faith-Filled Witness in Politics -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Praise for Beyond the Modern Age -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.

Modernity, according to Bob Goudzwaard and Craig Bartholomew, is not a single ideology but rather a tension between four worldviews. In conversation with students from around the world and drawing upon a variety of sources and disciplines, the authors propose ways to transcend modernity and address global crises.

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