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"Technopolis," as Cox calls this phenomenon in The Secular City (Macmillan; $1.45), supersedes not only early tribal society but also the town culture that has shaped the Western world since the time of the Greek polls (city) and has left man such varied gifts as "printing and books, rational theology...
Between Milking Hours? Cox believes that man in the secular city is equally indifferent to religion, in which gods or God are seen as controlling the destiny of the world, and to metaphysics, which philosophically defines the Creator as some kind of First Cause or Prime Mover. In other words...
This-Worldly God. The secular city demands not only a renewed message from the church but a renewed lan guage. Technopolis, Cox argues, sees no meaning in religious terminology derived from tribal society-God as Father, for example-or even in the metaphysical discourse of town culture that defined God...
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