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 People who may have been addicted to opium


  1. Samuel T Coleridge
  2. Thomas De Quincey
  3. John Keats
  4. Francis Thompson
  5. George Crabbe
  6. Charles Baudelaire
  7. William Wilberforce
  8. Hector Berlioz
  9. Elizabeth Siddal
  10. Branwell Brontë

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