Oct 15, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
Mike and Nate begin their series on A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. We hope you enjoy the session and the series!
And so just as a review, three D words, disenchanted, disciplined, and disembedded.
Talk about the difference between a world that was enchanted like the ancient world.
You may even think that the spiritual was more reality than the physical, right? And that is definitely flipped upside down.
And so, like, the occult becomes this sort of weird, interesting thing instead of the default sort of thing, all that kind of stuff.
Now, the point I think we were making is you can try to disenchant the world, but you really can't, right? And things are going to fill the void there.
The discipline was the idea of, to put it into my own words, okay, if we can do this without God, if we can disenchant the world, how are we going to do truth, morality, society, our story, or whatever? And he argues this is where there became a lot of the ideas of disciplining yourself, but also disciplining society.
And then the disembedded idea, as you put, we're less attached to the cosmos, kingdoms, families, and more independent, which is, I mean...
I thoroughly, like if there's one thing that everybody would agree upon is we are thoroughly in our late capitalist age more independent than people were in the past.
But something we talk about when we minister to people or do Bible classes, especially in the Old Testament, you go, they thought groups
And so just as a review, three D words, disenchanted, disciplined, and disembedded.
Talk about the difference between a world that was enchanted like the ancient world.
You may even think that the spiritual was more reality than the physical, right? And that is definitely flipped upside down.
And so, like, the occult becomes this sort of weird, interesting thing instead of the default sort of thing, all that kind of stuff.
Now, the point I think we were making is you can try to disenchant the world, but you really can't, right? And things are going to fill the void there.
The discipline was the idea of, to put it into my own words, okay, if we can do this without God, if we can disenchant the world, how are we going to do truth, morality, society, our story, or whatever? And he argues this is where there became a lot of the ideas of disciplining yourself, but also disciplining society.
And then the disembedded idea, as you put, we're less attached to the cosmos, kingdoms, families, and more independent, which is, I mean...
I thoroughly, like if there's one thing that everybody would agree upon is we are thoroughly in our late capitalist age more independent than people were in the past.
But something we talk about when we minister to people or do Bible classes, especially in the Old Testament, you go, they thought groups
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