Coming Back to Earth
Discussion Questions

Chapter 11 — handout

1. List several ways in which secularism can be traced to the First Axial Age.
2. Why, according to Geering, did secularism arise in the Christian part of the world?
3. How did Platonism retard the advance of secular thinking? How did nominalism promote it?
4. How did the Renaissance lead to the Reformation?
5. On what basis can one claim that Christianity produced the modern world?
6. Explain Peter Berger’s assertion that “Christianity has been its own gravedigger.”