A Living Religion
If you’ve read any of my previous works then you will know I’m not exactly the biggest fan of industrial modernity. More narrowly, I tend to focus on the impacts that this condition has upon man, and his experience of the world; how technology shapes our lives in ways utterly unplanned, and beyond its intended scope. One drastic consequence of modernity is what Heidegger named the “flight of the gods” . The crisis of our age leaves us moderns out of touch with many elements of prior human experience, if not secluded from truly “human” being altogether and religion is no exception. I will here explore the process of religion and how modernity has disrupted this in a fundamental way. “...there can be no such thing as “a sound modern education” - as well as talk about a “lively modern faith” or a “serviceable modern religion.” It should be obvious that the more “modern” an education is, the less “sound”, for in education, “modernism” is as much a heresy as in religion. In both mediaevalis...