Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
the buffered self, the immanent frame, the malaise of immanence, longing for fullness.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
The immanent frame empowers us for all the blessings of modernity, and inflicts all its woes on us as well.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
The immanent frame presents us with a fully explainable natural world, but also with a sense of ourselves as existing separate from that world and also from the supernatural world.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
and buffered the self toward an exclusive humanism in which human flourishing is the only goal and immanence the only frame.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
immanent frame—a certain way of looking at the world of daily experience.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
The ultimate dynamic driving this secular age is the denial of our creatureliness and the assertion of our autonomy.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Augustine and Pascal would have an answer:
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Yet I wonder if a narrative as broad and grand as he offers can ultimately avoid that question. Why do some ideas end up as part of the social imaginary while others do not?
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Taylor. He’s careful throughout to avoid asking about the truth of the ideas he discusses. That is appropriate as his task is descriptive and explanatory.