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Nonfiction · Philosophy

A Secular Age

Charles Taylor
2007 · 896 pages

In 1500 disbelief in God was barely possible. By 2000 it is ordinary. Taylor explains the shift not as science clearing away superstition but as Christian reform building a self sealed against transcendence.

★ 6.7