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THE NEED FOR SELF-FULFILMENT, Definition of Seclularism, The Path Towards…
THE NEED FOR SELF-FULFILMENT
Causes of Modern Age disbelief
People consider themselves to be religious or spiritual.
Modern people are deeply "cross-pressured" in their personal experience of religion and rejection of the personal authority of God.
A lack of cognitive commitment to a self-existent, self-revealing God.
Intellectual Moves To Seclurarism
Instrumental Reason
A hybrid of modern individualism.
Incorporates rejection of both old moral orders and their theological and teleological views.
Modern Individualism
Involves rejecting all old moral authorities.
Sacrifices-Toppling all old hierarchal
authorities and their moral orders.
Modern Age
It became possible not to believe in Christian Theism.
Intellectuals had freedom to hold different views regarding theism.
A secular alternative to Christian theism emerged.
The pre-modern age of antiquity
and the medieval synthesis.
Westerners did not had any intellectual alternative to theism.
People believed in Christian Theism..
There was no alternative set of explanations for the world and its operations, or for moral order.
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Late Modernity
Many people did no longer believed in Christian Theism.
This is true particularly among the elites and societal leaders.
An in a personal God, one who holds and exerts
authority.
Road to Self-Fulfillment
For people to have autonomy and fulfillment, they require the explicit rejection of Christian morality for the project of human liberation.
Risks of modern age disbelief
It breaks a cardinal rule of late modernity by moving from a proposition or question to a command and law and
authority.
Definition of Seclularism
The Path Towards Seclularism
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MODERN SECLULARISM