used to describe how our slavery to the fear of death comes to manifest itself neurotically and in more repressed guises. We’ll come to see, particularly in chapter 4, how in our quest for meaning and significance in the face of death we idolatrously come to serve, and are thus enslaved by, the principalities and powers—those institutions, vocations, ideologies, or lifeways that hold out the promise of durability and immortality. These attachments to the principalities and powers, driven as they are by death anxiety, become
