Out of the Box

Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor

Collin Hansen, ed.
The Gospel Coalition, 2017
(176 pages, $15.99, paperback)

reviewed by Louis Markos

In the fall of 2015, my son had an opportunity to study for a semester in Athens, Greece. Before he left, I did my best to equip him for the spiritual challenge he would face during his sixteen weeks in the country where all four of my grandparents were born. Though we had often discussed the apologetical arguments for the existence of God, the creation of the world, the authority of the Bible, the claims of Christ, and the historicity of the Resurrection, I knew that none of these . . .

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Louis Markos is Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University where he holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities; his 18 books include The Eye of the Beholder: How to See the World Like a Romantic Poet; From Achilles to Christ; Heaven and Hell, and The Dreaming Stone and In the Shadow of Troy (children's novels in which his children become part of Greek mythology and The Iliad and The Odyssey).

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