How Not to Be Secular Reading
Smith, James K. A.
ISBN 10: 0802867618 ISBN 13: 9780802867612
Published by Eerdmans, 2014
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What does it mean to say we live in a secular world? Charles Taylors landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental history and analysis of what it means for us to live in our post-Christian present a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. This book by James Smith is a compact field guide to Taylors genealogy of the secular, making that 900-page work accessible to a wide array of readers. Smiths How (Not) to Be Secular is also, however, a philosophical guidebook for practitioners a kind of how-to manual that ultimately offers guidance on how to live in a secular age. Its an adventure in self-understanding and a way to get our bearings in postmodernity. Whether one is proclaiming faith to the secularised or is puzzled that there continue to be people of faith in this day and age, this book is a philosophical story meant to help us locate where we are and whats at stake.
About the Author: James K A Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, where he holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. He is the award-winning author of a number of books, including Whos Afraid of Postmodernism?, The Devil Reads Derrida, Desiring the Kingdom, and, most recently, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works.
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Title: How Not to Be Secular Reading
Publisher: Eerdmans
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good