Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
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Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
As flourishing shifted from societal to individual, people were free to find all sorts of ways to experience something spiritual inside the immanent frame. Taylor has called this “the nova effect,” meaning that all sorts of third ways between cold immanence and organized religion exploded. These unique third ways provided people with overarching me
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The inward turn that was to open us to the act of God has been secularized—it is now possible for the inner self to be embraced and explored without God.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The age of authenticity was, in no small measure, a new way of engaging the immanent frame of the secular age without overthrowing it and returning to Edwards’s or Becket’s days. The world itself was presumed to be only natural and material; there was nothing in the world that was more than this.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
It feels implausible to imagine we will return to religion in its current form en masse, so we are in this curious post-secular state where socially and politically we need the emphasis on solidarity, practice and experience previously found in religion to defend the integrity of the public realm, but culturally and intellectually we can’t go back ... See more