11.06.09

miscellany: the new atheism.. Metavista.. Spirit and mission..

Posted in culture, health/recovery, leadership, learning, pilgrimage, theology at 9:45 am by len

Part 1 of 3 – Charles Taylor interview on the New Atheism:

The Other Journal (TOJ): I want to ask you about your thoughts on atheism in general, and explore what you have to say about atheism at the end of A Secular Age.1 I’m referring in particular to what you say on pages 768-69 of A Secular Age, where you describe two possible futures for the development of religion in the West. The first future flows out of mainline secularization theory, and predicts the continuous erosion of the public relevance of religious traditions. The second future, however, foresees religious traditions remaining an important aspect of people’s ongoing spiritual search for meaning.

Charles Taylor (CT): My money is on future number two, that is, the second of the two alternatives I outline in my book. I don’t really think that religion is going to fade away and that religiously defined alternatives will be less and less common. On the contrary, well…I don’t know if you’ve read the whole book or not, given that it’s so darn long [laughter].
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“Deep Church” on Reimagining theSpirit: Quo Vadis?

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Paul Fromont interview Colin Greene: Metavista. Here is what the publisher says about the book:

“The core narrative of Christianity, the book that conveys it (the Bible) and the institution of the church have been marginalised by the development of modernity and post-modernity. Strangely, post-modernity created an opportunity for religious thinking and experience to re-enter many lives. Yet post-modernity is not an adequate framework for thinking about life. There is therefore an opportunity for Christians to imagine what comes after and to prepare the church for a new engagement of mission with western culture. The church, through a creative missionary imagination, can re-define western cultural life. With a boldly crafted vision this book does precisely that.”

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Scot McKnights ten top books on leadership… and the list will surprise you. I’ve read only five of these, and never heard of two..

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