Prologue -- I. An accident in history -- 1. The accidental revolution -- World cliche culture -- Costs and benefits -- 2. Flight from the center -- II. An accident of faith -- 1. From the inside out -- 2. From the outside in -- Strangers and aliens -- III. The alternative to God -- 1. The scarecrow world -- In the world ... -- ... but not of it -- The human center -- In a post-modern framework -- Godlets and Godding -- 2. Manufactured in America -- IV. Clerics anonymous -- 1. The religious economy -- 2. On growing the church -- 3. Ecclesiastical barnacles -- The new vision -- Big business -- Workshops of recovery -- 4. Engineering the spiritual -- V. The weightlessness of God -- 1. Designer religion -- Uprooted from the world -- Pastiche personalities -- 2. Intellectuals -- The breath of the night wind -- The conquest of reality -- From Kant to Rorty -- The insurrection in theology -- The therapy of pride -- 3. The saliency of God -- The caging of God -- The danger in God -- VI. The outside God -- 1. God who is above -- Biblical texts -- Historical development -- 2. Boundaries -- 3. God the holy -- The irrelevance of holiness -- The stranger in our world -- 4. God the knower -- The crisis of authority -- The centrality of truth -- VII. God on the inside -- 1. The sacred canopy -- A peeling canvass -- The tragic -- The death of progress -- 2. The view from outside -- Christ the interpreter -- The big picture -- God's hand in history -- Curing the world's ills -- 3. The view from inside -- Bartering for the real -- The evangelical version -- What God is doing -- VIII. The coming generations -- 1. An extended family -- 2. The vision of theology -- 3. Ships in the night -- 4. The enchanted world -- 5. The world in a lens -- 6. The maze of modernity -- 7. The sum of it all -- IX. Speaking with a different voice -- 1. An embarrassment of being -- Post-modern pomp -- The disguise of faith -- 2. A strange confidence.