Alienation and Faith:

Abstract

Of all the phenomena, spiritual and social, that characterize contemporary existence, centrality of significance belongs to alienation. The distance at which the individual stands. from an easy immediate and innocent identification with nation, society, his physical environment, and other people is a distinguishing mark of the age; and one which has its obvious spiritual reflection. For the relationship between man and God is not inde;. pendent of that between man and the world. When man is prised off the surface of the world by his technical mastery of natural