Right Order: Beyond God and Atheism

This book confronts issues of meaning in a disenchanted, 'godless' world marked by the decline of organised religion. It proposes that right order is emerging as both the hidden structure of meaning that underpins the human condition and the force that shapes existence. The author argues that right order is both prior and to be made.

Men, women, and children depend on a sense of right order to feel at home in their world. They live by it. Order making is native, constitutive of who they are,...