Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction: After Postmodernism 13
Part 1 Reality
1 Constructing Our Own Worlds: The Ptolomaic Counterrevolution 25
2 Knowing Nature: The Dominance of Science 37
3 Mastering Nature: The Achievements of Technology 59
4 Recovering Reality: The Story of Kant's Neighbor 75
Part 2 The Body
5 The End of Sex: The Exaltation of Barrenness 97
6 Repudiating the Body: Engineering Children and Oneself 115
7 Sexual Counterrevolution: Toward a Theology of the Body 139
Part 3 Society
8 Culture and Anticulture: Society without Community 171
9 Power Politics and the Death of Education: From Relativism to Absolutism 189
10 Rebuilding Civilization: Options for the Dark Ages 211
Part 4 Religion
11 Spiritual but Not Religious: The Religion of the Nones 233
12 Religious but Not Spiritual: The New Gods 247
13 Post-Christian Christianity: Desecularizing the Church 267
Conclusion: Toward the Postsecular 289
General Index 308
Scripture Index 319