Charles Taylor, in his book, A Secular Age, explains one major thrust of the work of Ivan Illich:"Codes, even the best codes, can become idolatrous traps, which tempt us to complicity in violence. Illich can remind us not to become totally invested in the code, even the best code of a peace-loving, egalitarian, liberalism. We should find the centre of our spiritual lives beyond the code, deeper than the code, in networks of living concern, which are not to be sacrificed to the code, which must even form time to time subvert it." (p. 743)Romans 8:2—For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
