<Ul> <Li> List of Illustrations </Li> <Li> Acknowledgments </Li> <Li> Chapter 1: Ancient Rome - The finite Graeco - Roman gods were not a sufficient inward base for the Roman society: Rome crumbled from within, and the invasions of the barbarians only completed the breakdown . </Li> <Li> Chapter 2: The Middle Ages - Had many positive elements of a Christian society, but allowed humanistic concepts to begin to blend with the earlier Bible based Christianity . These elements would begin to polarize in the Renaissance . </Li> <Li> Chapter 3: The Renaissance - The rebirth of classical thought . The humanistic ideal, man beginning only from himself, becomes dominant and will continue to grow to its logical conclusion through the further periods . </Li> <Li> Chapter 4: The Reformation - The philosophic reasons the reformers wanted to break away from the Church of Rome . The reformers attitudes toward art and culture . </Li> <Li> Chapter 5: The Reformation--Continued - The effects the Reformation had on society, affecting thinkers who even themselves may not have been Christian by the traditional definition . </Li> <Li> Chapter 6: The Enlightenment - How optimism at human potential became divorced from religion . How the French Revolution showed the logical conclusion of this . </Li> <Li> Chapter 7: The Rise of Modern Science - Science's foundation came from confidence that God had created an orderly world that we could understand . </Li> <Li> Chapter 8: The Breakdown in Philosophy and Science - The shift from the concept of the uniformity in an open system to the concept of natural causes in a closed system begins the descent to despair and the conclusion that man is merely a machine . </Li> <Li> Chapter 9: Modern Philosophy and Modern Theology - Further steps down the line of despair . How the theologians follow the philosophers . </Li> <Li> Chapter 10: Modern Art, Music, Literature, and Films - Numerous examples of despair and alienation in modern productions . </Li> <Li> Chapter 11: Our Society - How the values of personal peace and affluence permeate our society . </Li> <Li> Chapter 12: Manipulation and the New Elite - How our society has opened itself up to the coming of an elite authoritarian state . </Li> <Li> Chapter 13: The Alternatives - Return to the Christian foundation of our society or face increasing economic breakdown, war, the chaos of violence, radical redistribution of wealth, and growing shortage of food and natural resources . </Li> <Li> A Special Note - Christians have special responsibilities </Li> <Li> Chronological Index - A detailed time line, intended to be used like an index, with page number references tied to the text . </Li> <Li> Topical Index - A more traditional index </Li> <Li> Select Bibliography </Li> </Ul> <Li> List of Illustrations </Li> <Li> Chapter 1: Ancient Rome - The finite Graeco - Roman gods were not a sufficient inward base for the Roman society: Rome crumbled from within, and the invasions of the barbarians only completed the breakdown . </Li> <Li> Chapter 2: The Middle Ages - Had many positive elements of a Christian society, but allowed humanistic concepts to begin to blend with the earlier Bible based Christianity . These elements would begin to polarize in the Renaissance . </Li>

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