[Oe List ...] A Secular Age

[frank bremner]

Dea colleagues

I've started auditing a post-graduate subject called "Readings in Systematic Theology", called "A Secular Age" based on a book of that name (about 400 pages!) by US priest Charles Taylor.  It will be a very exhaustive examination of the subject, digging very deep and wide, and going back to medieval times.  13 sessions x 2 hrs.  Very, very comprehensive 300+ pages.  Worth borrowing from a library at first as it's about $75.
 
My bias. which I'll be testing out, is that "the sacred is just an intensification of what we now call everyday life, the secular".  I think the separation of the two notions, which is not very Hebrew but is more Hellenistic, has to do with the development of religious institutions over the centuries.  (In my thinking, I'm using it as a deep, deep, look at the EI>ICA transition.)


Has anybody on our listserv read it?

 
Cheers
 
Frank Bremner
 
  


 		 	   		  
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