The Rivers North of the FutureDavid CayleyLabel: House of Anansi Press Ltd CanadaDescription: In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel.Illich's view which could be summed up as the corruption of the best is the worst is that Jesus' call to love more abundantly became the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organized and administered this New Testament. Illich also explores the invention of technology the road from hospitality to the hospital the criminalization of sin the church as the template of the modern state and the death of nature. Illich's analysis of contemporary society as a congealed and corrupted Christianity is both a bold historical hypothesis and a call to believers to re-invent the Christian church.With a foreword by Charles Taylor.Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a brilliant polymath an iconoclastic thinker and a prolific writer. He was a priest vice-rector of a university founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca Mexico and author of numerous books including Deschooling Society Tools for Conviviality Energy and Equity and Medical Nemesis.
