Douglas’s Reviews > A Secular Age > Status Update

Saving book for more focused winter months.

The ideal of civility, with its core image of taming raw nature, already involves what we might call a stance of reconstruction towards ourselves.

Kairotic: (kairos) a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment Parousia: second coming Sæculum: century or age, from which secular is derived. 'People who are in the Sæculum, are embedded in ordinary time, they are living the life of ordinary time; as against those who have turned away from this in order to live closer to eternity.'

'Fullness' How did alternatives to the God-reference of fullness arrive? Doesn't define Entstehungsgeschichte

General thesis q's: How did we shift from our "naive past" to our indecisive "reflective" present? How can we examine both (or all) sides of the experience of what is beyond us, the theist, atheist and between?

I am going full throttle into this (Drew). He writes like I think: starts with one main idea in mind, paddles through twists and turns, is easily distracted by other thoughts spotted in the passing scenery, then eventually remembers the main idea and now has a deeper understanding of the terrain...but loses others attention along the way. Wish me luck!