Three Thomisms and Three Realms

Abstract

The claim that we live in a secular age is made in the opening words of Charles Taylor’s magnum opus, A Secular Age; his assertion has a wealth of scholarly support from experts such as Calhoun et al. (2011), Mendieta and van Antwerpen (2011), Parker and Reader (2016), Schuller (2006) and Williams (2012), to name but a few. Indeed, Stoeckl (2015: 1) boldly asserts that ‘European societies are secularized societies’, whilst in a discussion of American society, Moreland (2012: 27) bemoans that ‘nor is a Christian worldview an important participant in the way we as a society frame and debate issues in the public square’.