"The dominant culture is seen as essentially endorsing and embodying the priorities of technocratic pragmatism while the counter culture ... represents an alternative version of human life which ... contains a more or less cryptic 'spirituality'. ... modern theology seems ... to be most often no more than a complacent and collusive sanctification of public order ... [Quote p.63]
An influential trend in the theological revaluation of secular society has ... spawned an expansive rhetoric in celebration of the achievement of neo-capitalist man a rhetoric which is obtrusive and insensitive enough to make those who can see what is really happening to the 'nature' of human nature in our culture dismiss Christianity out of hand as unavailing and irrelevant. If Christian spirituality in its anxiety not to be other-worldly and supernatural ceases to be eschatological and pneumatological then plainly it loses credibility as a possible stance for creative struggle in the world." [Quote p.63]
Kerr offers modern (1971) literary criticism and psychoanalysis as evidence of counter culture spirituality.It is important for the theologian to recognise how deeply critical of the secular society many of the most influential non-believing thinkers among us are ... In the view of most sensitive critics our society is very sick and it is certainly no betrayal of his [sic] function for the theologian to attend to what they are saying." [Quote pp71-3]