Word: technopolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other possibility which hurt Protestantism badly, pushing Him outside the domed-in-world (as Ficino did in Renaissance Italy) to work things out for ourselves would leave little room for Transcendental values. The alternatives were apparent to many in "academe" either we trapped Christ in our secular, technopolitan would, effectively cutting Him, and us, off from the Ascension (the element of transcendence); or we pushed Him "out there" and made Him inaccessible again...
...supercity, Cox argues, grows out of town culture, but is qualitatively different; it is characterized by automation and mass communication, superhighway mobility, and the anonymity demanded by high-rise living. The style of life in the secular city is both pragmatic and profane. For practical-minded technopolitan man, "life is a set of problems, not an unfathomable mystery." He is too engrossed in grappling with the realities of this life to have much concern with those of the next...