Developments in Christian Thought

6. Challenges: The Challenge of Secularism Challenges facing religious thought from areas such as science, secularisation, migration and multi-cultural societies and…

Secularism is a worldview which appears to exclude the metaphysical belief in God as originator of creation and the moral law….

Here is my list of possible future exam questions on this area of the specification. You should plan answers to these…

Handout – Secularism – Darwinism, Psychology and Feminism “Secularism is the move from the enchanted reality to the de-enchanted reality –…

Charles Taylor, a Canadian Academic, won the Templeton prize for his book The Secular Age (Harvard, 2007). Here is a summary,…

Here is the front page of the Secular Society’s website. It makes some important claims – for example, that secularism is…

This is a chapter summary of The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, produced by Zack…

source We all know we live in an age of secularism. Few of us have a philosophical and theological vocabulary which…

source Richard Dawkins is arguably the most popular atheist writer/ teacher of our time. His background includes a PhD in zoology…

source Charles Taylor reminds us that secularisation has several meanings – you can be a secular society where church and state…

source It is easy to imagine the rise of ‘no religion’ being driven by personal crises of faith in which adults…

I know how difficult it is to avoid illusions; perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature,…

source The New Athiests, such as Sam harris, Danuel Dennett and Richard Dawkins are not relativists. They believe in universal moral…

We now take the secular state so much for granted that it is hard for us to appreciate its novelty, since…

Jerry Solomon relfects on Secularism Secularism permeates virtually every facet of life and thought. What does it mean? We need to…

source The highbrow monthly Prospect put it more bluntly in its November cover story: “God returns to Europe.” One might cheekily…

source In the final chapters of the book, Taylor explores where he believes Christianity is heading by painting his broad impressions…

source Secularism means that religious considerations are excluded from civil affairs. We live in a time when public secularism is something…

source  A Critique of Freud’s The Future of an Illusion Sigmund Freud’s The Future of an Illusion (1927) seeks to prove…

source Positivism or the Positive Philosophy The French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857) formulated a form of empiricism, which he called Positivism…

In this chapter, we will discuss different French and American approaches to religious minorities and to religion’s place in society. Tocqueville…

source Secularism must now be seen as a positive worldview in the modern world that takes its place alongside other traditional…

The ‘secularization thesis’ states that religion declines as societies modernize. The characteristics of modernization are widely agreed upon, though different thinkers…

“Acedia had been understood by earlier Christians as a ‘hatred of place and even life itself,’ as one desert father put…