Abstract
Secular man and his secular city have arrived. The historically inevitable de tribalization and desacralization of society, by freeing man from "religious and metaphysical tutelage," enable him to achieve "real maturity." So asserts the theologian, Harvey Cox.1 Neither secular man nor the secular city exists; nor is either coming into being. Because man (innately?) seeks "to preserve the traditional, the pri mordial, the suprarational elements of his life, the secular city may never exist." Secularization cannot lead to greater maturity. So insists the sociolo gist, Andrew Greeley.2 The theologian replies. Yes, man and his city are partly tribal; there is no "wholly secular" man. But man is "turning his attention away from [super natural] worlds beyond and toward this world and this time."3 Urban civil ization liberates man.
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