I was making an afternoon run through Facebook when I noticed that one of our fearless leaders, Mr. Fuller, posted a quite salient comment by Rep. Rangel on the state of religious organizations and health care (the responses to which I would encourage you to read as they’re quite interesting and … Read more about Defining the Secular: A Public Voice for the Church in a Post-Christian Century
Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization (Pt. 2)
In the last blog, I tried to show the relationship between denominationalism and the functionalist (which I previously defined, so please see that definition) account of religiosity. The importance of drawing out this relationship was described in the final paragraph, namely, that when a … Read more about Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization (Pt. 2)
Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization
After a long break from blogging...which included a camping trip and a mom-visit...I’m retaking up the issue of secularization. Because I’m out of scholar mode, though, I’d like to take a more interesting and creative stance toward the phenomenon today, one that will probably be near and dear to … Read more about Defining the Secular: a Two-part Digression on the Emergent Church and Secularization
Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 3)
So far in this series, I have outlined two very important ideas, both of which are at least indirectly related to what Taylor is up to. First, I talked about Taylor’s intellectual context, i.e. the problem he’s trying to uncover and respond to in his book on Secularization. The problem is found in … Read more about Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 3)
Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 2)
In my previous blog, I tried to give some sort of picture of what Taylor is generally up to in his book on secularization. As said, he is trying to give an historical analysis of how the social conditions that once socially bound persons to a belief in God shifted in such a way that belief became … Read more about Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 2)
Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 1)
My good friend Tripp recently approached me with a project. He knows that I’ve been wanting to express some thoughts in an arena other than the academic, and I know that he’s been wanting to do some stuff for his readers on secularization. With the promise that I will eventually get to help … Read more about Defining the Secular: Charles Taylor (pt. 1)