I begin this post by posing straightaway the questions that will guide my argument. In what way can atheism and…
Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects
intellectual history
Commentaries on our age
Each contributor [to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age] delivers a reading of Taylor’s work, helping to evaluate its…
Antihumanism and religion
One of the things that intellectual historians show us, although often only implicitly, is the fluidity of the terms of…
Resistance, critique, religion
Justin Neuman's stimulating last post encouraged me to reread the debate asking "Is Critique Secular?"from the beginning, and in doing so I…
The rules of the games
The Stillborn God begins as a book about two chess games. Part of the book explains, in all too cursory…
Two books, oddly yoked together
Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God feels like two books, oddly yoked together. One is a fascinating study, which traces a…
Liberal Protestantism the key
Lilla alludes to the fact that “in the Anglo-American orbit, a liberal theological outlook could grow up alongside a liberal…
What if?
It seems to me that Chris Nealon and Colin Jager are onto something important when they remind us that there…
Our historical Sonderweg
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to respond to The Stillborn God, with sharper comments than…
The other shore
For Lilla, Westerners are the exception because we live on what he calls “the other shore.” Civilizations on the “opposite…