This course proposes that the primary spiritual and intellectual challenge the Church faces in the 2020’s is a postmodern, effectively materialist worldview. In ancient Greece, Epicurus held that truth about God is unknowable (“kenodoxic”); all we can know is our material existence and desire for human connection. Basing our lives or civil society upon “kenodoxic” belief in God would cause pointless conflict and injustice, and thus represent ill will towards others. Later, Voltaire held that we must “tend our gardens” and abandon higher questions. More recent in-effect materialists such as Marxists, the Frankfurt school, and critical-liberationists, ground a worldview–widely held by the professional, managerial class–that defines justice as individual sexual and end-of-life autonomy, and economic and educational collectivism to undo identity-group-based ‘structural injustices.’