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Augustine and Pascal would have an answer:
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.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
the Christian public intellectual needs to be a kind of ethnographer, offering a “thick description” of our present,
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
To be human is to be a moral agent. That, in turn, meant that we live in a human universe the very structure of which is dramatic. And the great drama of any life is the struggle to surrender the “person-I-am” to the “person-I-ought-to-be.”
George Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Paul is evangelized by the act of ministry, by a minister sharing in his broken person. Paul must give himself over to the new narrative shape of Christ; he must have faith that this new narrative is the constitution of reality—that indeed from death comes life.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism (Contributions to Hermeneutics Book 1)
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The way that this modern moral order takes shape around chosen identity makes it complicated for pastors. If the church or the pastor tries too hard to shape a person’s life, it will be a violation of the modern moral order.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
