I started this book with high expectations. The impact and insight or Charles Taylor’s, A Secular Age, is hard to ignore. I was expecting a book which restated and engaged with Taylor’s argument, and applied it’s principles to life and ministry in a secular age.

I was however disappointed in reading this book.

The chapters were brief and light. All of Taylor’s words were paraded—cross pressured, fragilised, immanent frame, mutual display, buffered self etc—but few of these words were given adequate interpretation, illustration and application to the experience of ministry and life in a secular age.

This is the second work (after James K. A. Smith’s, How (Not) to be Secular) I have read seeking to popularise Taylor’s insights. So far I have been persuaded that there are deep things to be learnt from Taylor but I am waiting for someone to show how they intersect in tangible ways with the age in which we live. ( )