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Secular Mysticisms - A Conversation with Andrew Root
Depending on the person using them today, words like 'secular' and 'secularism' tend to be proclamations of triumph or cries of alarm.
But for thinkers like Jacques Ellul and Charles Taylor, more measured and contemplative approaches to whatever secularism is and does are required to get a clear understanding of where we have been, where we are, and where we are going socially, culturally, politically, economically, and spiritually speaking.
In this conversation, I speak with Andrew Root, an insightful reader of Charles Taylor, as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. So, at one point in our dialogue you’ll hear me say: so, what do you (Andrew) think about Ellul’s treatment of our so-called secular age?
On top of a few sidebar conversations about us both supporting losing hockey teams, the mysterious appeal (or lack thereof) of the Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons, Andrew and I spend a good deal of time laying out the essential features of Taylor’s and Ellul’s understandings of secularism—where they are similar, where they are different, and so on—before he answers that question.
Guest Bio
Andrew Root is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, USA. He writes and researches in areas of theology, ministry, culture and younger generations. His most recent books are Churches and the Crisis of Decline (Baker, 2022), The Congregation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2021), The End of Youth Ministry? (Baker, 2020), The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need God (Baker, 2019), Faith Formation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2017), and Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science (Fortress Press, 2018).
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Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/when-church-stops-working-featuring-andrew-root/id1462822741
Website: https://www.andrewroot.org/
Twitter: https://x.com/rootandrew
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.root/
Andrew's latest book: The Church in the Age of Secular Mysticisms
https://bakeracademic.com/p/The-Church-in-an-Age-of-Secular-Mysticisms-Andrew-Root/516472
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Additional Notes
Jordan Peterson is the Intellectual We Deserve: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve
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By Personalist Manifesto(s)Depending on the person using them today, words like 'secular' and 'secularism' tend to be proclamations of triumph or cries of alarm.
But for thinkers like Jacques Ellul and Charles Taylor, more measured and contemplative approaches to whatever secularism is and does are required to get a clear understanding of where we have been, where we are, and where we are going socially, culturally, politically, economically, and spiritually speaking.
In this conversation, I speak with Andrew Root, an insightful reader of Charles Taylor, as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. So, at one point in our dialogue you’ll hear me say: so, what do you (Andrew) think about Ellul’s treatment of our so-called secular age?
On top of a few sidebar conversations about us both supporting losing hockey teams, the mysterious appeal (or lack thereof) of the Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons, Andrew and I spend a good deal of time laying out the essential features of Taylor’s and Ellul’s understandings of secularism—where they are similar, where they are different, and so on—before he answers that question.
Guest Bio
Andrew Root is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, USA. He writes and researches in areas of theology, ministry, culture and younger generations. His most recent books are Churches and the Crisis of Decline (Baker, 2022), The Congregation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2021), The End of Youth Ministry? (Baker, 2020), The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need God (Baker, 2019), Faith Formation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2017), and Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science (Fortress Press, 2018).
Follow Andrew Root
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/when-church-stops-working-featuring-andrew-root/id1462822741
Website: https://www.andrewroot.org/
Twitter: https://x.com/rootandrew
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.root/
Andrew's latest book: The Church in the Age of Secular Mysticisms
https://bakeracademic.com/p/The-Church-in-an-Age-of-Secular-Mysticisms-Andrew-Root/516472
Follow Personalist Manifestos
Substack: https://personalistmanifestos.substack.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PersonalistManifestos
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/personalist-manifesto-s-podcast/id1779392257
Additional Notes
Jordan Peterson is the Intellectual We Deserve: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve