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Charles Taylor and the Return of Theology‐as‐history

Charles Taylor’s work A Secular Age, which was awarded the 2007 Templeton Prize, has been hailed as one of those few ‘must-read’ books that appear every once in a while. Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Canada and a well-known public intellectual, is a practising Catholic. The first three parts of A Secular Age, which cover the story until the twentieth century, began life as his 1999 Gifford Lectures. Parts Four and Five, which examine the situation over the past century, have been added since. The finished work runs to more than 770 pages with a further hundred pages of notes and index. A Secular Age is an ambitious work which sets out to explain the trajectory of North Atlantic civilization in the half millennium since 1500, his starting-out date. In particular, it is about how ‘exclusive humanism’, as he calls it, became a viable way of looking at the world alongside others.