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Theology in a Subjunctive Mood: Reflections on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2013

F. B. A. Asiedu
F. B. A. Asiedu*
Affiliation:
Formerly, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
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Extract

Charles Taylor's A Secular Age is by any account a monumental work. It has spawned a cottage industry of comment which should not abate for a long time to come. While social theorists have engaged Taylor's arguments from the very moment the book appeared, theologians seem to have been slower to comment. Recently, however, two important theological assessments have appeared in the Journal of Religion and Modern Theology.

Keywords

Connollyreflectionsecular ageSkinnersubjunctiveTaylortheology
Type
Article Review
Information
Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , May 2013 , pp. 230 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2013

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References

1 See Journal of Religion 90 (2010), pp. 367–406; and Modern Theology 26 (2010), pp. 321–416.

2 Taylor, Charles, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), p. 25.Google Scholar

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4 Ibid., p. 226.

5 Taylor, A Secular Age, p. 643.

6 Tulley and Weinstock, Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism, p. 47.

7 Ibid., p. 47, quoting Sources of the Self, p. 519.

8 Ibid.

9 Taylor, A Secular Age, p. 519.

10 Tulley and Weinstock, Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism, p. 47.

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12 Tulley and Weinstock, Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism, p. 225.

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15 Ibid.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid.

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