NATURALIZING CHRISTIAN ETHICS: A Critique of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age

This essay critically engages the concept of transcendence in Charles Taylor's A Secular Age. I explore his definition of transcendence, its role in holding a modernity-inspired nihilism at bay, and how it is crucial to the Christian antihumanist argument that he makes. In the process, I show h...

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Main Author: Hart, William David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 149-170
Further subjects:B Secular
B Transcendence
B Naturalism
B God
B Humanism
B Nihilism
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