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.

Reading the Bible G

There is a directory, which every Church possesses; an infallible rule there is, and a sure record of the Saviour's mind, by which every Church must be guided. Every Church has the Bible - the Spirit's register of the will of Christ; and of it we can say that it "is profitable," - not to individual believers alone, but to Churches collectively, and to their office-bearers as such,  - "for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
Andrew Gray (The duty and the liberty of a Christian church)

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