Are you familiar with the work of Charles Taylor, particularly A Secular Age?
After becoming familiar with his work, and my desire already underway to try and understand and learn from ante-Nicene Christianity, I desired a way to put away my materialist buffered self and embrace, as the Church fathers knew naturally, the enchants cosmos.
I think the key to becoming more Christ-like is to take up residence in a cosmos where there is no Enlightenment-created false dichotomy of natural and supernatural. There is only the natural. There is nothing more natural than the creator of all good things to step into the time he created and make alterations according to his good and perfect will.
That is the reality I want to reshape my soul.
One of the tools I’ve embraced is the Book of Common Prayer. I use an app called Venite.
I’m not as disciplined as I should be but I am sticking with it and i get glimpses now and then of how my perception of reality is changing.
One of the big mistakes evangelical Christianity made was dropping liturgy.
Of If I lived near a doctrinally conservative Anglican Church, I’d be drawn to it.
I listened to that recently and it was a nice review of Taylor’s work. His book You Are What You Love is a good follow on in the quest to re-enchant ourselves. A rare book I read first and haven’t listened to yet (but will).
Are you familiar with the work of Charles Taylor, particularly A Secular Age?
After becoming familiar with his work, and my desire already underway to try and understand and learn from ante-Nicene Christianity, I desired a way to put away my materialist buffered self and embrace, as the Church fathers knew naturally, the enchants cosmos.
I think the key to becoming more Christ-like is to take up residence in a cosmos where there is no Enlightenment-created false dichotomy of natural and supernatural. There is only the natural. There is nothing more natural than the creator of all good things to step into the time he created and make alterations according to his good and perfect will.
That is the reality I want to reshape my soul.
One of the tools I’ve embraced is the Book of Common Prayer. I use an app called Venite.
I’m not as disciplined as I should be but I am sticking with it and i get glimpses now and then of how my perception of reality is changing.
One of the big mistakes evangelical Christianity made was dropping liturgy.
Of If I lived near a doctrinally conservative Anglican Church, I’d be drawn to it.
His How To Inhabit Time and On the Road With St Augustine are must reads as well.
I have a copy of A Secular Age, but I haven’t taken the plunge. Maybe today’s the day!
It’s dense. I did the audiobook first. Studiously reading the hardback now.
Jamie Smith’s book How Not To Be Secular is supposed to be a good intro.
I listened to that recently and it was a nice review of Taylor’s work. His book You Are What You Love is a good follow on in the quest to re-enchant ourselves. A rare book I read first and haven’t listened to yet (but will).