Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
has Reformed theology become just one more tool for coping with our secular age?
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
Human beings are always seeking to find some meaning in life,
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
and thereby sanctifying the ordinary,
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
He laments the shift from embodied to intellectual faith in what he calls Reform,
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.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Where you see holiness, sacrifice, and love, you see religion that delights in God, religion that can survive a secular age.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Taylor argues: “Our age makes higher demands of solidarity and benevolence on people today than ever before.”
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.