Great novels and recovering a Christian "social imaginary"
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Over the past several months, I have been working on an outline for a sequel to my 2016 book The Culture War, conducting interviews and burying myself in the most recent work on the ongoing transformation of our civilization by the sexual revolution. One of the aspects of this transformation that is most interesting to me—and that I write about frequently—is the concept of a “social imaginary,” defined by philosopher Charles Taylor as how people imagine or perceive their surroundings, shaped by images, stories, legends, and everything that makes up “that common understanding which makes possible common practices and a widely shared sense of legitimacy.”
Great novels and recovering a Christian "social imaginary"
Great novels and recovering a Christian…
Great novels and recovering a Christian "social imaginary"
Over the past several months, I have been working on an outline for a sequel to my 2016 book The Culture War, conducting interviews and burying myself in the most recent work on the ongoing transformation of our civilization by the sexual revolution. One of the aspects of this transformation that is most interesting to me—and that I write about frequently—is the concept of a “social imaginary,” defined by philosopher Charles Taylor as how people imagine or perceive their surroundings, shaped by images, stories, legends, and everything that makes up “that common understanding which makes possible common practices and a widely shared sense of legitimacy.”