ABSTRACT

Christopher Partridge contends with reference to George Lindbeck, that 'occulture is leading to the establishment of an occultural-linguistic community' characterized by 'a gradual occultural ecumenism'. Augustine of Hippo's theology of the Trinity which took over Western religion is the basis for Joseph P. Farrell's account of subsequent decline and perversion in the West. His account is a history of declension that Western academics purportedly hide from themselves as the West continues its slide into the amoral destruction of its historic identity, while sinning against moral, political, cultural, and economic common sense. Farrell works with categories such as Transtheism, Hidden History and Gnosticism, but in a way politically and culturally in polar opposition to the categories of the postmodern academy and mainstream or official culture. The postmodern academy and mainstream culture fuse leftist rhetoric with the realities of a corporate financial basis composed of transnational military and economic enterprise under strong government direction.