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“LONG LIVE THE WEEDS AND THE WILDERNESS YET”: REFLECTIONS ON A SECULAR AGE
Author(s) -
HAUERWAS STANLEY,
COLES ROMAND
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2010.01612.x
Subject(s) - worry , wilderness , liturgy , epistemology , philosophy , duality (order theory) , order (exchange) , immanence , character (mathematics) , theology , psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics , ecology , economics , anxiety , geometry , finance , psychiatry , biology
While we are deeply appreciative of Taylor's A Secular Age , we nonetheless worry that his use of the immanent/transcendent duality may introduce a certain kind of Christian Constantinianism that he wants to disavow. In particular, we worry that the immanent/transcendent duality is far too formal in its character. In order to develop this concern, we draw on Talal Asad's account of the secular to suggest how liturgy may provide an alternative way of understanding as well as challenging Taylor's worries about “the immanent frame.”