Praise of the secular - Vahanian, Gabriel 1927-2012 (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-147) and index
Theology and the secular -- Religion as vindication of the secular -- Faith and the adiaphoricity of the world -- Inklings of the secular -- No God is God : incarnation and the secular -- Worlding the word : incarnation and the Christ -- Christ, neither God nor man -- Fictions of faith -- An ethic of the unprecedented -- A gratuitous ethic -- The death of God and the ambiguities of the secular -- The religious meaning of the secular : language and the self -- Religion denatured : Tillich's underestimation of the secular -- The secular and Ellul's overestimation of the sacred -- Language and Rorty's blind spot -- The secular and the deregulation of religion -- Between theocracy and anarchy : from the sacred to utopia -- The two bodies of the Christ -- Beyond pluralism and fundamentalism : a bridge over a river without banks -- Worlding the word : incarnation and the otherness of time -- Dated, not outdated : timing the eternal -- Anachronistic time and eternal now -- Ecce homo -- Epilogue: The two hands of language : a secular Christ