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April 5 - August 3, 2019
predicting a progressively less-religious future.
offer an alternative account that doesn’t just “explain away” transcendence,
In our religious lives we are responding to a transcendent reality. We all have some sense of this, which emerges in our identifying and recognizing some mode of what I have called fullness, and seeking to attain it. Modes of fullness recognized by exclusive humanisms, and others that remain within the immanent frame, are therefore respondent to transcendent reality, but misrecognizing it. They are shutting out crucial features of it. So the structural characteristic of the religious (re)conversions that I described above, that one feels oneself to be breaking out of a narrower frame into a
...more
felt.
sense
imagine
Elliot
excarnational
move toward more “Catholic” expressions of faith
Buffered self
insulated in an interior “mind,” no longer vulnerable to the transcendent or the demonic.
porous...
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Cross-pressure
The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a “belief system.” Contra incarnational, sacramental spirituality.
Exclusive humanism
Fragilization In
Immanent frame
Immanentization The process whereby meaning, significance, and “fullness” are sought within an enclosed, self-sufficient, naturalistic universe without any reference to transcendence. A kind of “enclosure.”
Modern moral order
mutual benefit rather than an obligation
Thus the “moral” is bound up with (and perhaps reduced to) the “economic.” Nova effect The explosion
third ...
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Porous self
buffered self.
“two-tiered” religion.
distinguished from the sacred
neutral, unbiased, “objective”
exclusive humanism.
Social imaginary
social imaginary is “the way ordinary people ‘imagine’ their social surroundings, and this is often not
expressed in theoretical terms, it is carried in images, stories, legends, etc.”
Can be either “closed” (immanentist) or “open” (to transcendence).
Taylor emphasizes that the secular is
produced,
not just dis...
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“closed” (immanentist) or “open” (to transcendence). See also spin.
mere this-worldly flourishing.
it engenders a way of life that is transformative.
