The Humble Sublime: Secularity and the Politics of Belief

by Ronald F Thiemann and Ronald F. Thiemann

Can belief be taken for granted when the modern self is now so thoroughly cut off from the transcendent? The philosopher Charles Taylor has argued, in his influential work A Secular Age, that it cannot. But theologian Ronald F. Thiemann, likewise a prominent public intellectual, asserts - against Taylor - that people can yet find divine significance in the ordinary and everyday as much as in structured faith and worship. Thiemann's subtle idea...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780767447
• ISBN13: 9781780767444
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"