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Tables of Contents for Dancing Alone
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
 
Bishop Methodios
Author's Note
xiii
 
Part One: The Age of False Religion
The Problem
1
14
Worship
The New Dogma
Religious Secularism
Another Vision
The Cultural War''
15
12
The Law
The Humanities
Feminists
The Demotion of Man
The Failure of American Secularism
27
13
Blind Guides
The Secularist Agenda
Educrats
The Emperor's New Families
Victims
The Failure of the Secular Right
40
18
The Fundamental Problem
Whose God?
Who Won?
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Choices
Nostalgia
Dead End
Secular Boundaries
Living in the Past
The Roots of the Cultural War
58
16
The Schism
The Root of the Division Between East and West
The God of History
Conclusion
The Reformation
74
9
Pandora's Box
The Beginning of the End
Calvin
Dort
The Five Points
The Enlightenment
American Humanism
83
19
Abandonment of Reason
Conclusion
The Protestant Dilemma
102
10
Devolution
Anabaptist Anarchy
Revolutionaries Become the Establishment
Pietism, the Retreat from Reality
Disaster
The Birth of the American Civil Religion
112
11
Total War on Tradition
The New Multiple Personality
Franklin and Jefferson
Personalized Truths
123
8
The New American Religion
The Three-Legged Stool''
The New Reality: Politics as Religion
131
9
Unwelcome Reality
For the Selfish, By the Selfish, of the Selfish
Politics Replaces Religion
Conclusion
The Last Step
140
7
Education, Playground of the Secularizers
Finney and Company
American Hypocrisy
Part Two: Authentic Orthodox Faith
The Historical Church
147
28
The First Bishops
The Male Hierarchy
Apostolic Continuity
The Historic Church and Scripture
Moral Authority
Conclusion
Unity in the Church
175
14
Order in the Church
Schism
Unique Authority
Order in the Historic Church
The Natural Law of Order
Hope
False ``Authority''
189
14
True Authority
Delusion
Scripture
Reading the Bible
False Leaders
Apostolic Accountability
Forgiveness Within the Church
Salvation
203
19
Free Will
New Hope
Heaven and Hell
A Parable
Judgment
Conclusion
Sin
222
11
Personal Responsibility
Why Be Good?
The Sacrament of Confession
Personal Confession
The Ultimate Lawlessness
233
21
The Church's Stand Against Abortion
The Fathers and Abortion
Scripture
Unborn Patients
Commemoration of the Unborn
The Big Lie
The Journey
254
10
Persecution
Historic Christianity
264
11
Worshippers
The Living Dead
Real Life
Worship in Church
The False Church
Mary's Choice
Taste and See
275
9
The Sacraments Betrayed
Protestant Judases
Useless'' Beauty
Iconic Reality
The Eternal Feast
Good News
284
13
Generous Reality
Goodness For Its Own Sake
A Final Word
297
19
The Immigrant Church
Ethnic Clubs Dead Wood
Two Churches
The Quest for Truth
Seduction
The Ecumenical Debacle
A Gall to the Orthodox
The Quiet Revolution
The Monastic Imperative
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
316
7
Index
323