The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Carey 2010 6

In a slightly revised programme here at the Carey we had first a good question session with Conrad Mbewe and Greg Beale and then later a prayer and share session.
Various people spoke - Martin Leech and some of the current 11
EMF students (from Romania, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary); Steve Bignall on EP's mission work in French speaking Africa; our own South African Richard Raven from LTS; Alan Levy on PTI;
Sergey Babanko from Kazakhstan; Yuriy Vyshnevs'kyy from ELT; John Stevens about Passion for life which I confess I knew nothing about and, finally, Jonathan Bayes of Carey Outreach Ministries on the far east.
We then spent a quarter of an hour in prayer.

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