Cupitt, Don.

The meaning of the West : an apologia for secular Christianity / Don Cupitt. - London : SCM Press, 2008. - x, 171 p. ; 22 cm.

What is the West? -- God secularizes Himself -- The West as secularized Christianity -- The indelible -- Enlightenment values? -- Progress: the accumulated indelible -- The West as modernity -- Modernity as a state of exile -- Stories about modernity -- Scrupulosity -- Critical thinking, God and nihilism -- The western self: denial and affirmation -- The indelible dream -- The disappearance of the sacred -- Historical change, for the better -- The ethical difference -- The afterlife of Christianity.

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Christianity and culture.
Philosophy and religion.
Theology, Doctrinal--History.
Secularism.
Holy, The.
Apologetics.