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.
Author(s): Ivan Illich, David Cayley, Charles Taylor
Edition: 1st
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 0
City: Toronto, Canada
CONTENTS
Foreword by Charles Taylor
Preface
Introduction
I THE CORRUPTION OF THE BEST IS THE WORST
1. Gospel
2. Mysterium
3. Contingency, Part 1: A World in the Hands of God
4. Contingency, Part 2: The Origin of Technology
5. The Criminalization of Sin
6. Fear
7. The Gospel and the Gaze
8. Health
9. Proportionality
10. School
11. Friendship
12. On Knowing How to Die: The Last Days of Savonarola
13. The Age of Systems
14. Envoi
II REITERATIONS
15. The Beginning of the End
16. Conscience
17. The Crowning Glory
18. From Tools to Systems
19. Embodiment and Disembodiment
20. Conspiratio
21. Across the Watershed
22. Gratuity
Notes
Index
