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Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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
Both need to see a gospel that isn’t just true but is also good and beautiful.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Taylor. He’s careful throughout to avoid asking about the truth of the ideas he discusses. That is appropriate as his task is descriptive and explanatory.