Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age Beck Richard
Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age Beck Richard We live in a secular age, a world dominated by science and technology. We don't expect miracles. Increasing numbers…
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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age Beck Richard
We live in a secular age, a world dominated by science and technology. We don't expect miracles. Increasing numbers of us don't believe in God anymore.
It was a world where God existed and the devil was real. We've grown up and left those fairytales behind, culturally and personally.Yet five hundred years ago the world was very much enchanted. It was a world full of angels and demons.
It was a world of holy wells and magical eels. But since the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the Enlightenment, the world, in the West at least, has become increasingly disenchanted.While this might be taken as evidence of a crisis of belief, Richard Beck argues it's actually a crisis of attention. God hasn't gone anywhere, but we've lost our capacity to see God.The rising tide of disenchantment has profoundly changed our religious imaginations and led to a loss of
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