Sublime

We presume without much reflection that faith need not be defined or examined too closely.

The word “church” signals a past age, and therefore, they imagine, it is irrelevant to those seeking meaning and purpose in the age of authenticity.

Youthfulness is the core strategy used to make the immanent frame and Secular 3 seem pleasurable and exciting in an otherwise boring prison of immanence.

“Ultimately, I guess, I don’t know what to do, because I don’t know how to talk about God in a way that people sense and recognize. I’m not even sure if that’s possible anymore.” He felt like this shifting landscape had left him, as pastor, with an inability to discuss divine action.

We live in a time—call it a secular age—when society has devalued the pastor and yet we nevertheless yearn for ministry.

But while the strategy of youthfulness in the age of authenticity must be critiqued, what must be affirmed is authenticity’s attention to experience (especially that of the humanity of young people).

Seek the “True Sense”

So while with one hand authenticity pushes us into immanent obsession with want and desire, with the other it opens our ears to a deep echo that sounds like the muffled song of transcendence.

our Western imaginary from seeing reality as personal to seeing it as impersonal.