Well, these “subtler languages operating in the ‘absolute’ mode can offer a place to go for modern unbelief”; more specifically, they provide an outlet and breathing room for those who feel cross-pressured precisely by the Romantic critique of the deism and anthropocentric shifts that have flattened the world, leaving no room for mystery. For those who can’t tolerate such ruthless flattening of instrumental reason (and Taylor thinks our better nature will never tolerate that), this emergence of the arts provides another venue for a kind of immanent mystery, an anthropologized mystery within.
