The Christian Mystery: Lecture 8 of 18

This book provides a broad overview of Steiner's fresh thinking on "social threefolding." He acknowledged that the demand for social change, derived above all from the working class, whom industrialization had forced into a kind of indentured life dominated by economics. From Steiner's perspective, the underlying issue was not only economic, however, but also spiritual or cultural. Culture and the cultured classes had become estranged from "real life." Society needed a "free" culture that w...