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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Mirage of "Golden Age" Christianity


Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age skewers the notion that secularism is the result of a straight-shot progression from religious superstition to objective rational belief in science. His historical survey delves into the complexities of the historical record, and along the way, he shows how easy it is to interpret history as a way of justifying our own biases. Read more

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The Problem With “The Problem With the Church Today...”
The mirage that a segment of the Anglican Church in North America, including a large number of its leaders, are chasing, the purported "golden age" to which they are seeking to return the Church, is the early high Middle Ages,  the period before the East-West Schism in the eleventh century.
Graphic: stanford.edu 

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