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  • American Grace: The Theological Price

  • Kieran Flanagan
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    New Blackfriars / Volume 93 / Issue 1048 / November 2012
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    01 January 2024, pp. 645-651
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    November 2012
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  • The study, American Grace by Putnam and Campbell affirms the sociological significance of religion as a distinctive vitalising form of social capital. With its stress on virtues of trust, altruism and communal affiliation realised through social networking in congregations, this civil religion, one peculiar to the U.S.A., accomplishes a form of grace that resolves the puzzle of belief and pluralism by generating harmony and religious tolerance. This solution bears a price of rendering religion as end in itself, one detached from exclusivist theological claims in regard to salvation. In exposing this conundrum, the study reveals a highly significant and unexpected facet of the secularisation thesis.

  • Further remembrances: John Orme Mills

  • Kieran Flanagan
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 92 / Issue 1042 / November 2011
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    01 January 2024, pp. 647-650
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    November 2011
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  • A Secular Age: an exercise in breach-mending

  • Kieran Flanagan
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    New Blackfriars / Volume 91 / Issue 1036 / November 2010
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    01 January 2024, pp. 699-721
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    November 2010
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  • This article considers three aspects of Taylor's A Secular Age: the issue of the status and authority of theological insights derived from sociological analyses; the irresolvable ambiguities of secularity, where it marks the disappearance of religion but inadvertently affirms its persistence; and the properties of nostalgia and memory that unexpectedly shape post-secularity and the forms of enchantment it seeks.

  • Life in the Medieval Cloister by Julie Kerr, Continuum, London, 2009, pp. xiv + 256, £20.00 hbk

  • Kieran Flanagan
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 91 / Issue 1035 / September 2010
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    01 January 2024, pp. 612-614
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    September 2010
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