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.

Death Richard Bewes

Well behind with this but I see that Richard Bewes has died aged 84. See more here.


I rode with him in an auto once,
only a hundred miles and a half,
Seemed like it took a couple of months.*

*An allusion to the Bob Dylan song Lenny Bruce is dead. RB spoke once at an eccentrics conference and he and I had a lift home to London from Paul Levy. RB did most of the talking and fascinating it was.

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