PART I. The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ANCESTRAL ORDER

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I. The Problem of Unbelief 3 1. Whirl is King 3 2. False Prophecies 5 3. Sorties and Retreats 10 4. Deep Dissolution 14

II. God in the Modern World 21 1. Imago Dei 21 2. An Indefinite God 23 3. God in More Senses Than One 25 4. The Protest of the Fundamentalists 30 5. In Man’s Image 35

III. The Loss of Certainty 37 1. Ways of Reading the Bible 37 2. Modernism: Immortality as an Example 40 3. What Modernism Leaves Out 48

IV. The Acids of Modernity 51 1. The Kingly Pattern 51 2. Landmarks 56 3. Barren Ground 61 4. Sophisticated Violence 63 5. Rulers 65

V. The Breakdown of Authority 68 1. God’s Government 68 2. The Doctrine of the Keys 71 3. The Logic of Toleration 74 4. A Working Compromise 76 5. The Effect of Patriotism 78 6. The Dissolution of a Sovereignty 82

VI. Lost Provinces 84 1. Business 84 2. The Family 88 3. Art 94 a. The Disappearance of Religious Painting 94 b. The Loss of a Heritage 96 c. The Artist Formerly 98 d. The Artist as a Prophet 101 e. Art for Art’s Sake 104 f. The Burden of Originality 106

VII. The Drama of Destiny 112 1. The Soul in the Modern World 112 2. The Great Scenario 115 3. Earmarks of Truth 118 4. On Reconciling Religion and Science 121 5. Gospels of Science 125 6. The Deeper Conflict 131 7. Theocracy and Humanism 133