Picking up the pieces

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Part I: hard times for religion -- A rational, secular world -- The death of God -- A glance at secular theology -- Negative theological responses to secularization -- Secularization denied: the evidence used wrongly -- Secularization denied: religion redefined -- Secularization denied: merely a byproduct of societal imbalance -- The religious institution in modern society: The problem of fragmentary existence -- The religious institution in modern society: roles of the religious institution in a fragmented society -- Substitutes for religion in secular society -- The role of the city in secularization and religion -- Evidences for desecularization: the counterculture -- Evidences for desecularization: the Jesus movement -- Evidences for desecularization: ecstatic religion today -- If I were a pastor -- Part II: building a theology for the times -- How to make a theology: a guide to good taste -- Science and religion: four metaphors -- In search of a metaphor -- Creativity as metaphor -- Personality as metaphor -- Problem solving and value affirmation -- Evil and death -- Eschatology: the end of society -- Eschatology: personality and death -- Church and Israel: social forms and elect communities -- Election and mystery.