04 December 2014, The Tablet

Pleasant surprises


 
Heythrop College has hosted plenty of eminent lecturers over the years. But the man who proved the biggest draw was the philosopher Charles Taylor. A packed Loyola Hall heard on Tuesday night the author of A Secular Age discuss the Disjunctions Movement, set up by a group of Catholic thinkers concerned about signs of the times which indicate the Church is not speaking to the world. Taylor described the disenchantment caused by ideas of an ordered world being sidelined, difficulties with the Magisterium and moral thinking, but also signs of hope, as many people are seeking after answers. Afterwards, Taylor, professor emeritus at McGill University, Montreal, said he had been taken by surprise twice in his life: the first was before Vatican II, when he thought the ideas of Henri de Lubac and
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