Corruption of Christianity

The corruption of the best is the worst. This old adage sums up Ivan Illich's view of the fate of the Christian gospel for 2,000 years. He speaks as a Christian who believes that through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, something gloriously new came into the world: the possibility of knowing and loving God in the flesh. But along with this came a danger: that the call to love more abundantly would become the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organize and administer the New Testament. "Wherever I look for the roots of modernity." Illich explores this hypothesis with respect to medicine, law and other modern institutions.Cayley, David is the author of 'Corruption of Christianity' with ISBN 9780660180991 and ISBN 0660180995.