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WHere are we?

Buffered Self

Immanence

Explosion of IDeas

Christainity as harmful to society

Subtraction theory Religion and not religion -= 10, 10 -1

Church of England - 1348 and 1350 plague church asking for fasting and prayer, in HIV AIDS 90s medical reserach

Praying for our daily berad and its at the grocery store

exclusive humanism - goal

immance - only frame

No listening to authority. including our bodies. We have to be free.

Apathy towards God. We are marginalized.

I mean by this a humanism accepting no final goals beyond human floursihing, nor any allegiance to anything else beyond this floursihing. of no previous soceity was this true.

At the same time… Malaise

THere is a fear and anxiety that our actions, goals, achievements, and life, have a lack of weight, gravity, thickness, substance.

Is there more?

Porous self

bufferesed self - vulnerable to attack not only open to danger but gains meaning and significnce from outside himself.

It’s not seeing the world as is, but imposing meaning on the world.

Human flourishing is the goal, eevrything oblicgation is to be an enhancement

The malaise of modernity - benefits of buffered self - I’m good no matter what. I have power. I control my destiny.

We still have transcendent feelings, experiences but not transcendent reality

3 forms of loss:

Struggle to find significane in life

Crucial moments in life such as birth marriage and death heighten the ense of malaise

Age our authenticty

Super nova explosion. Everybody thinks differently.

What’s true is kind of what works for you.

Apologetics:

:Laying the playing field

show challenges of the other side

show Christianity as better