The Geist of Hegel Past and Present

This essay appreciates Taylor’s qualitative (rather than quantitative) approach to secularization, which has revolutionized recent discussions of this topic. Taylor’s earlier work on Hegel provides a context for interpreting his proposal in A Secular Age that Western societies are secularly religiou...

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1. VerfasserIn: McClymond, Michael J. (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2018
In: Pneuma
Jahr: 2018, Band: 40, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 58-70
RelBib Classification:CA Christentum
KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
NBC Gotteslehre
NBF Christologie
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Secularity secularization Charles Taylor Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (G.W.F.) Hegel incarnation Christology deism transcendence
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Zusammenfassung:This essay appreciates Taylor’s qualitative (rather than quantitative) approach to secularization, which has revolutionized recent discussions of this topic. Taylor’s earlier work on Hegel provides a context for interpreting his proposal in A Secular Age that Western societies are secularly religious or religiously secular—neither devoid of concern with transcendence, nor committed to theologically definite accounts of transcendence. Two major points of critique follow—first, that Hegelianism with its “immanent frame” excludes a distinctive Christian claim regarding Jesus’s incarnation; and, second, that Taylor’s hypothesis of faith “fragilized” by the “revisability” of contemporary religion needs empirical support to be fully credible. Taylor often represents religion as a lowest-common-denominator aspiration for something higher, rather than God coming to us incarnationally (John 1:14). Deism-with-transcendence is not Christianity. Taylor’s “fragilization” theory might mean that secularity, too, is “fragilized,” and it ought to provoke pastoral reflection on how “fragilized” faith might be stabilized.
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ISSN:1570-0747
Enthält:In: Pneuma
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700747-04001034