Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The promise of new social movements; 'Theology'; Three stages of modernity?; A second Axial Period?; Arguments for calendar-reform; Beyond 'metaphysics'; Post-metaphysical faith; Expressivism and individuality in new social movements; Against 'recoil-theology': do the failures of second modernity really compel us to go backwards?; The healing of Christendom's original trauma: against a theology without absolutes; A new covenant?; The other matrix: Islamic civil society; 'Holy, Catholic and Apostolic'; Discourse ethics and religion; 'Wo aber Gefahr ist '
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Summary
Andrew Shanks argues that God is most present in a culture where public debate over ethical issues flourishes best
