The Rivers North of the Future

David Cayley

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In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as "the corruption of the best is the worst," is that Jesus' call to love more abundantly became the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organized and administered this New Testament. Illich also explores the invention of technology, the road from hospitality to the hospital, the criminalization of sin, the church as the template of the modern state, and the death of nature. Illich's analysis of contemporary society as a congealed and corrupted Christianity is both a bold historical hypothesis and a call to believers to re-invent the Christian church. With a foreword by Charles Taylor. Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a brilliant polymath, an iconoclastic thinker, and a prolific writer. He was a priest, vice-rector of a university, f


Author(s): Cayley, David
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 14/04/2005
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: House of Anansi Press
Published By: House of Anansi Press
Book Classification: Christianity
Dimensions: 245 x 152 x 32
Weight: 408
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780887847141

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