Culture and the Church: Secularism

Culture and the Church: Secularism 

A talk that Phillip gave as an itinerant preacher at church@thepeak in Peakhurst, Sydney.

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1. A Christian Secularist!
   • the causes of the Rum Rebellion
   • the approval of sinfulness
2. Secular or Secularist?
   • definition of secular and secularism
     • secular (14th c) “Belonging to this age, this world”
     • secularism (1851) “Rejection of all forms of religious faith or worship”
   • is Australia secular?
     • nation or government
     • separation of church and state
   • living in a two story house
     • the Christian’s house
     • the Mystic’s house
     • the Secularist’s house
3. Secularism’s Incoherent Inadequacy
   • meaningless
   • amoral
   • eternity
4. Jacob’s Ladder
   • Babel
   • Jacob
   • Jesus