Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Taylor faults the Protestant Reformation and modern evangelical Christianity for disenchanting the world and turning the focus on the self rather than on God through shared religious rituals.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
then appeal to the culture.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
You really only have two options in a secular age. Either God is for you, on your own terms, or God sets the terms.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
“To be secular, says philosopher Charles Taylor, is to have no final goals beyond this-worldly human flourishing.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
...and everything else is in the way!
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
Keller’s apologetic approach closely resembles Taylor’s. Smith describes Taylor’s apologetic in three steps.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
they’re signs that we’re following the risen Christ and not just treating our therapeutic needs.