With the above considerations in place, we more clearly see the underlying dialectical logic in the procession of dominant Western worldviews, which we can now list as follows: I. IDENTITY: BIBLICAL/THEOLOGICAL II. DIFFERENCE: MODERN SECULAR III. NEW IDENTITY: PLANETARY “Great Code”: creation, fall, redemption; Incarnation: birth/passion/resurrection = descent of Logos humanism; science; eventual disenchantment = exaltation of the finite The special characteristics of the third, planetary, worldview will become progressively more apparent as we proceed, in the following chapters, to consider
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