How (Not) to be Secular

How (Not) to be SecularReading Charles Taylor How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post Christian present a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing

the development of the church’s central doctrines—such as the incarnation and the Trinity—as well as the rise of scholasticism

First published in 1999

and we need to learn to suffer

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Called to it at the age of sixty-five

The study of the book of Zechariah is bound to be enriching

The slogan "Paul and the Empire" is much in vogue in New Testament scholarship today

The primacy of the mind in the Christian faith can be affirmed without denying the importance of the heart

Must a person accept Christianity on faith alone

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This seems fortuitous since so much of contemporary culture is fixated in many ways on beauty