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“Modern” can refer to a curious range of things: from “the time in which we live”, to a period in art history (beginning with Impressionism and ending in Pop Art), to a late-medieval position on universals (the via moderna as distinct from the via antiqua). Depending on the context, that is to say, “modern” can begin in the late nineteenth century, or in the late Middle Ages, or whenever the person speaking happened to have been a teenager.For contemporary theologians, the word tends to be used to describe the period in intellectual history inaugurated by the Enlightenment
27 March 2014, The Tablet
Theology after Postmodernity: divining the void – a Lacanian reading of Thomas Aquinas
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