EDITED BY

COLLIN HANSEN

OUR SECULAR AGE

TEN YEARS OF READING AND APPLYING CHARLES TAYLOR

TGC

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

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CONTRIBUTORS

BRUCE RILEY ASHFORD serves as provost and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He co-authored One Nation Under God: A Christian Hope for American Politics and is the author of Every Square Inch: An Introduction to Cultural Engagement for Christians. You can follow him at www.BruceAshford.net.

MIKE COSPER is director of The Harbor Institute for Faith and Culture in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth, Rhythms of Grace: How the Church’s Worship Tells the Story of the Gospel, and co-author of Faithmapping: A Gospel Atlas for Your Spiritual Journey.

BOB CUTILLO, MD, is an associate faculty at Denver Seminary, where he teaches on health and culture, an assistant clinical professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a physician at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. He has worked for many years in faith-based health care for the uninsured and under-served.

GREG FORSTER (PhD, Yale University) is the director of the Oikonomia Network, a visiting assistant professor of faith and culture at Trinity International University, and the author of numerous books and articles.

COLLIN HANSEN serves as editorial director for The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of several books, including Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey With the New Calvinists. He previously worked as an associate editor for Christianity Today magazine, edited Revisiting ‘Faithful Presence’: To Change the World Five Years Later, co-edited Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, and co-edits the Cultural Renewal series with Tim Keller.

MICHAEL HORTON is the J. Gresham Machen professor of systematic theology and apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. His books include Putting Amazing Back into Grace, Christless Christianity, and The Gospel-Driven Life.

BRETT MCCRACKEN is a writer and pastor in Southern California. He is the author of Hipster Christianity and Gray Matters, and his most recent book is Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge ...