{"id":6088,"date":"2010-08-06T05:15:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2010-08-06T05:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:15:42","slug":"the-postsecular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/08\/the-postsecular\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postsecular"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become \u201cpostsecular.\u201d \u00a0Scholars are now factoring back in the importance of religion. \u00a0And yet this too has its divisions between those who favor a multi-faith religious pluralism and the advocates of \u201cradical orthodoxy\u201d\u2013a sophisticated application of historical Christianity in terms of continental philosophy. \u00a0See this interview:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/mclemee\/mclemee301\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Views:     After the Postsecular \u2013 Inside Higher Ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Radical Orthodoxy, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radical_Orthodoxy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HT:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/08\/05\/second-links-%E2%80%94-8-5-10\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Mills<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become \u201cpostsecular.\u201d \u00a0Scholars are now factoring back in the importance of religion. \u00a0And yet this too has its divisions between those who favor a multi-faith religious pluralism and the advocates of \u201cradical orthodoxy\u201d\u2013a sophisticated application of historical Christianity in terms of continental philosophy. \u00a0See this interview:\u00a0Views: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,47],"tags":[1770,1839],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-education","category-theology","tag-postsecular","tag-radical-orthodoxy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Postsecular<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The intellectual, academic world, according to some observers, has become &quot;postsecular.&quot; 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