Tayloring a postsecular theology?: postsecular interpretations of Charles Taylor

Thrasher, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0001-8357-4090 (2024). Tayloring a postsecular theology?: postsecular interpretations of Charles Taylor. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

This thesis constructively interprets the work of Charles Taylor and appraises how it offers resources for addressing the problematic secular assumptions of a double dualism between both the sacred/religious and the secular as well as between transcendence and immanence. It addresses the first dualism by contextualizing the sociological contributions of Charles Taylor into postsecular discourses by constructing a postsecular critique of the secular. It addresses the second dualism by utilizing Taylor’s philosophical contributions as a catalyst for constructing a postsecular incarnational theology of presence. It constructs both a postsecular critique of the secular and a postsecular incarnational theology of presence to provoke new ways of understanding what it means to retrieve transcendence as a viable option of believing and being human in the cross-pressures of a secular, immanent frame.

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Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

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Doctorates > Ph.D.

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