Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
enter the culture,
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
It’s not sustainable. God continues to haunt this secular age with our desire for goodness.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
this shift eventually fueled Deism.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Because as religion goes away, evil does not, contrary to the projections of Dawkins and his cohort. And secular hopes for universal justice and benevolence can’t be built on a mere “subtraction theory.”
Carl Trueman • 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
But he and Keller both see a limit to how much longer secularists can demonize the religion of our Western inheritance.
Carl Trueman • 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
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
by making the secular sacred it inadvertently created a context where the sacred could ultimately become secular.