The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

10 Literary Greats whose fathers were ministers

1. Jane Austen (Anglican Rector)
2. Pearl S Buck (Presbyterian missionary to China)
3. John Buchan (FC of S minister)
4. Lewis Carroll [Samuel Lutwidge Dodgson] (Anglican cleric)
5. Stephen Crane (Methodist Episcopal minister)
6. Elizabeth Gaskell (Unitarian minister)
7. Dorothy L Sayers (Anglican cleric)
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Presbyterian minister)
9. Charlotte Bronte (Anglican Rector)
10. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Anglican Rector)
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