“Subtraction stories” and a longing for transcendence
In this lecture, James K. A. Smith explores key elements of Charles Taylor’s understanding of what it means to live in a secular age. (43 minutes)
The experience of a “real presence” in sacred music
Insisting that political leaders are incapable of obeying Christ
Oliver O’Donovan on the unintended consequences of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Once there was no “secular”
Carlos Eire on the metaphysical assumptions championed in the sixteenth century
Questioning the “sacred-secular” division
With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
The religious character of medieval secular life
John Milbank on the sacred canopy of premodern Europe
The danger of a self-marginalizing religion
Alasdair MacIntyre on how the task of religion is to help see the secular as the sacred, the world as under God.