38. Dissatisfactions with the Buffered Identity

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Contemplating Culture: A Missionary Walk Through A Secular Age

Contemplating Culture

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Part book-club, history lesson, philosophical pondering, sisterly conversation, launchpad for reflection, our hope beyond anything else is that Contemplating Culture blesses you. A Secular Age by Charles Taylor is a big fat book full of good stuff that most of the world's population will never read. So we're doing it for you. Kathryn is reading through the book and cartooning as she goes, taking these into conversations with Katherine. Together, we explore the state of contemporary culture, how we got here, and what this all means for us as missionaries in the world today.

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38. Dissatisfactions with the Buffered Identity

Contemplating Culture: A Missionary Walk Through A Secular Age

41 minutes 53 seconds

2 months ago

38. Dissatisfactions with the Buffered Identity

In this episode we explore with Charles Taylor some of the felt dissatisfactions that begin to arise with the emergence of the buffered identity.

In the realm of resonance, these include i) the notion that Deism is too tame and that we must take love seriously, ii) a revulsion at goodness being only at the level of self-interest, and iii) the feeling that life within the immanent order is too easily reduced to a code.

In the realm of the romantic, these include i) the felt alienation of the self from the senses, ii) the felt alienation of the self from others, iii) the felt alienation of the self from nature. and iv) the felt sense of division between humanity and nature.

In the realm of tragedy, these include i) the sense that pain and suffering are too easily denied, ii) the loss of the heroic, iii) the rejection of a flat and levelled down sense of happiness, and iv) the lack of a place for death in the immanent frame.

References:

-Pages of A Secular Age, Charles Taylor: (310-321)