Tag Archives: Charles Taylor

Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part IV)

By roger | Published: 25 July 2010

I had started writing this series, when a poem arrived in my e-mail. Yes I had started writing about the Hollow Horror of Modernity, the Hollow Horror that Charles Taylor, it seems to me fails to do justice to in A Secular Age, when this poem arrived. This poem – was its arrival just a [...]

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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part III)

By roger | Published: 17 July 2010

In the last entries I have been reviewing, after a fashion, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. As I say, the book furnishes an extraordinarily comprehensive and complex sociological history, regarding the transition from Catholic Western Civilisation to our atomised, contemporary society. The book is brilliant on countless levels. I have even dared to ascribe a [...]

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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part II)

By roger | Published: 10 July 2010

Today I am continuing from thoughts last time on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age – an 800 page narrative, as to how we exited the Medieval worldview and entered our fragmented, post-modern age. As I said before, this is a masterpiece I hope to review fully in time and these are entries toward that final [...]

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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men

By roger | Published: 3 July 2010

In 1930, Evelyn Waugh, the British Catholic novelist (most famously of Brideshead Revisited), wrote: “It seems to me that in the present state of European history, the essential issue is no longer between Catholicism, on one side, and Protestantism, on the other, but between Christianity and chaos. “Civilization — and by this I do not [...]

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Acceptable Loss?

By roger | Published: 8 December 2009

This entry like a number of mine, you will see, is tagged Dictatorship of Secularism. And these tagged entries refer to my growing conviction over years, as I study the rise of secularism, of how we are being manipulated, robbed, co-erced and ultimately controlled. Now in terms of these webmusings, there is a book that [...]

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The Strange Joy and Power of Catholicism

By roger | Published: 25 November 2009

I am still needing to deliberate further on continuing my musings on the biosphere, law and more. In the meantime, Kim should be posting more soon, and I am pasting in a little fragment written a long time back: “Years ago, I attended a lecture by an impressive man, who would later become the Archbishop [...]

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