#immanent frame

A Secular Age, Charles Taylor. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (ISBN: 9780674026766), 2007. Summary: How Western society moved from a shared belief in God to a secular age in which belief was one option of many. Charles Taylor’s book, A Secular Age, has become a primary source of sorts for anyone trying to understand our present time. On a regular basis, I come across writers…

Did you see the TikTok clip of a church in Texas that had flying drummers for their Christmas program? What did you think of it?

During the Christmas season, you might have seen that odd TikTok video of drummers suspended in midair as they played their instruments. This was all part of a Christmas extravaganza at a Baptist congregation in Texas. They literally have a cast of thousands for the event. This is how it was described: A press release from the church, which reportedly has over 50,000 members, describes the show…

“The purpose of this forum is to recover a different way of understanding terms such as “immanence,” “naturalism,” “materialism,” and “monism” in order to overcome their parasitic, negative relationship with religious premises and thus shed the negative connotations they have accreted in Christian-centered Western thought. We want, in other words, to reconstruct a positive way of imagining irreligion, on its own terms.”

Joseph Blankholm and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti