WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
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The New Evangelization
iam proposing a strategy for the creative engagement of the nuns and a programme useful, i hope, for the purposes of what the last several popes have called the new evangelization. Though i'll develop these thoughts in a disciplined, academic way, i want to make clear from the outset that my purpose is not purely speculative. Ok, so first now, the fered self. In his magisterial text, the secular age, the canadian catholic philosopher charles taylor constructs a complex narrative designed to explain the intriguing fact that in the year 15 hundred, practically everyone in the west believed god. Many contemporary people hold something that their early modern forbears would have found unthinkable,
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