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The Endgame of Secularism - Coggle Diagram
The Endgame of Secularism
Charles Taylor
Pervasive Individualism - The rejection of all moral authority
The toppling of hierarchal authority and tradition
This requires the breaking down of older moral tradition
Biblically, this is rebellion
Reason as the replacement for society's foundation, requires the elimination of Biblical influence in hierarchal social structures
Biblically, this is rebellion
Public Discourse by means of Reason - public discourse should be based strictly on reason and not on other personal aspects
In a Secular Age
"The Three Ages"
Antiquity - Impossible not to believe in theism, as society was ordered to focus on belief with God as the foundation
Morality was based on God and the Bible
The Modern Age - It became possible not to believe, however, society was still foundationally rooted in God
Morality is still based on God and the Bible, but there are those that reject it
The issue with this view is it is based on linear progression in society which is not how civilization works
Society is cyclical - There are periods of increases in reason, and there are periods with increases in faith; the goal is to utilize both faith and reason - both are God given
Late Modernity - The rejection of God and the focus on reason
Morality is no longer based on God and the Bible, but is instead based on reason as the new foundation
Albert Mohler's Response
Christianity as the intellectual outlaw
Christians are unable to approach public discourse from the foundation of theology, as it violates late modernity's rules on claims
To acknowledge God is to make a claim, according to post modernist thought
Despite this, Christians must continue to argue for the good of the earthly city, as God has commanded
Post Modernist thought pushes Christians into a corner where they are unable to argue from their inherent foundation that is Christ