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Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age - Contingency, Vulnerability, and Hospitality (Hardcover)
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Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age - Contingency, Vulnerability, and Hospitality (Hardcover)
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In the course of a long and distinguished academic and civic
career, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been, for
articulate atheists and learned believers alike, an incisive,
insightful, gracious, and challenging conversation partner on
issues that arise at the intersection and interaction of religion,
society, and culture. Grace and Freedom in a Secular Age offers a
concise exposition of key ideas—contingency, otherness, freedom,
vulnerability and mutuality—that inform his probing analyses of
the dynamics of religious belief and religious denial in the
pervasive contemporary culture he calls a "a secular age," within
which religious belief and practice have, for many, become just an
option. Those ideas provide the basis from which Rossi argues that,
despite a clear-eyed recognition of the deep fractures of meaning
and the pervasive fragmentation of once stable societal connections
that a secular age has brought in its wake, Taylor also sees and
affirms strong grounds for hope in a healing of our broken and
fractured world and for the possibilities—and the importance
of—active human participation in that healing. Taylor points to
signs indicative of potent re-compositions and renewals taking
place in religious belief and practice from its interaction with
the dynamics of secular culture, particularly ones that make
possible radical enactments of deeper human solidarity and
mutuality, of which the one most often potent is the reconciliation
of enemies. In pointing out these signs, Taylor suggests a richly
expansive reading of the Christian doctrine of Creation, as it
marks the radical contingency of all that is upon a freely bestowed
divine self-giving: Creation is the ongoing enactment of the divine
hospitality of the Triune God.
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