So religious expectations of sanctification are increasingly generalized, yielding a new vision of how society can and should be ordered. But there is a corresponding shift in religious practice that must also be noted. These developments — de-sacramentalization and the generalization of “discipline” — come with the “eclipse” of other key features of premodern Christian religion. In particular, Taylor highlights the loss of any coherent place for worship: “the eclipse of certain crucial Christian elements, those of grace and of agape, already changed quite decisively the centre of gravity of
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