This is where the mind that has allowed itself to be Christianized cannot help but recoil from received notions of ‘progress,’ and from the indiscriminate usage of it as a term in cultural discourse. And where also, perhaps, such a mind finds commonality with other faiths or ideologies only insofar as they do not regard, as instances of progress, the advancements by which civilization tends to measure itself, unless those advancements can avail themselves to the spiritual needs and moral complacency of humankind.