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Description
The corruption of the best is the worst. This old adage sums up Ivan Illich's view of the fate of the Christian gospel for 2,000 years. He speaks as a Christian who believes that through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, something gloriously new came into the world: the possibility of knowing and loving God in the flesh. But along with this came a danger: that the call to love more abundantly would become the basis for new forms of power in the hands of those who organize and administer the New Testament. "Wherever I look for the roots of modernity." Illich explores this hypothesis with respect to medicine, law and other modern institutions.
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