How are we to understand Taylor's own position between disengagement and "fanaticism"? Of course, he doesn't want to side with…
The fanatical counterpublic
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…
Must secular rights fail?
It does certainly seem, as Simone Chambers points out in "Do good philosophers make good citizens?", that Dr. Wolterstorff ultimately…
Look elsewhere for agonistic social ontology: A response to Smith
If it is indeed the case that "the social ontology of rights talk generally assumes that, at bottom, the kind…
We are all Christians now
At first glance, Justice is an internecine wrangle between theists (or better put, Christians). On the one side is Alasdair…
Wolterstorff’s Bible-as-“frame”
In short, I agree with Wolterstorff that, while there is no theory in this extremely diverse array of biblical texts,…
Multi-religious denominationalism and American identity
Charles Taylor has argued that those of us living in North America and Europe are witnessing a shift in our…
Christian moderns
I argue that the moral narrative of modernity is a projection onto chronological time of a view of human moral…
After purification
Christian Moderns stands apart in at least two respects: in method and in conceptualization. Whereas earlier works on liberalism, modernism…
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and…