On the first day of my vacation last week, I perused N.T. Wright's latest book, a collection of essays on contemporary issues in light of the Bible.
A point that Wright makes in a number of the articles is that modernity and Christianity propose fundamentally different meta-narratives in regard to the meaning and trajectory of history. Modernity -- at least in its Western form -- is predicated on the assumption that history came to its climax in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, with the definitive victory of empirical science in the epistemological arena and liberal democracy in the political arena.
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