Cracks in Secularism: Thriving Churches in Vancouver
Jason Byassee finds religion reemerging in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Jason Byassee finds religion reemerging in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Alexander McQueen’s theatrical catwalks presented a conflicted sketch of a miraculous, transformed, and beautiful body consistent with what Charles Taylor has identified as the theologically haunted condition of late-modern Romanticism.
J. Aaron Simmons is a regular contributor to the Church and Postmodern Culture blog. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Furman University. He is the author of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn (Indiana UP, 2011); co-author of The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2013); co-editor of […]
The doctrine of vocation, emerging from Martin Luther’s theological genius and taken up by the other Reformers (and handed down to us today) has functioned to bring about the sanctification of ordinary life as Charles Taylor as others have rightfully noticed.[1] Where there was once a hierarchy in which churchly vocations (e.g., monks, priests) were […]
We haven’t done a RESOURCE post in quite some time. And since things have been dormant here for a bit now, it seems a good time to point readers to some worthy material for further pondering and perusal. The work of Richard Kearney does not get as much attention as it deserves (at least I […]
The Filmwell landscape is well populated with Certified Copy posts (like the wonderful meditations found here and here). And it seems appropriate that this film is considered and reconsidered at this site. As a new contributing writer, I almost feel as if offering a post on this Kiarostami is like a rite of passage into […]
It’s been quiet here for a bit. However, we’ve got quite a few posts lined up for the rest of the summer. Starting Monday, we’ll host in 3 substantive interactions with James K.A. Smith’s The Fall of Interpretation, 2nd ed. We’ve invited three reviewers to interact with Jamie’s latest edition of his very first book […]
In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.
Part I of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here. Part II of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here.
In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.