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David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
the ‘Enlightenment’, the chief tenet of which was that human reason possesses the power not only to penetrate to the natural laws underlying the world, but to determine the nature of a just society, to advance the cause of human freedom, to discover the rational basis of morality and to instill moral behaviour in individuals and nations.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Religion in a secular age is a private affair. That’s why the courts, media, and other cultural gatekeepers respond with incredulity when believers claim constitutional protection for their right to practice religion in the public square.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
One of the hallmarks of this reality is that the Bible as a sacred text lay at the heart of the sixteenth-century church reforms for both sides of the Reformation debate. Further, history as an authoritative source of wisdom plays a significant role for both Catholics and Protestants in the sixteenth century. The Reformers themselves constantly
... See moreCarl R. Trueman • The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
a viable postmodern Christian faith may appropriate forms of Christianity that existed before the split between “the natural” and “the supernatural.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
You can see that many in the emerging church movement have reacted to their view that any church structure is “modern” by not only “flattening” church structure but by a reluctance to move away from affirming those whom the Lord has called, gifted, and authorized to serve as leaders in his church in favor of “leaderless” groups.[120]
Timothy Z. Witmer • Shepherd Leader
The first crisis resulted from the sixteenth-century European Reformation.