Keane’s account is convincing, but it is important to contextualize the semiotic ideology he defines. I could be misreading Keane…
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.
Reconstructing belief
I would like to continue the discussion of modernity and the problem of belief, which, like Danilyn Rutherford, I do…
No view from nowhere
I’ll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and…
Colonialism and conflict
If the idea of purification is to retain broad currency across the colonial landscape, it may need to be defined…
An absence of belief?
The topic I want to pester Professor Keane about is belief. Christian Moderns uses the missionary encounter on the Indonesian…
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and…
After purification
Christian Moderns stands apart in at least two respects: in method and in conceptualization. Whereas earlier works on liberalism, modernism…
Christian moderns
I argue that the moral narrative of modernity is a projection onto chronological time of a view of human moral…
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…
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,…