
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
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
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
Augustine and Pascal would have an answer:
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
they’re signs that we’re following the risen Christ and not just treating our therapeutic needs.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
and thereby sanctifying the ordinary,