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James K.A. Smith

James K.A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the author of Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology (Baker Academic, 2004) and has recently edited After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-enchantment of the World which will appear later this year from Baylor University Press.

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007

The last prophet of Leviathan

Lilla turns aside to the small cadre of the Enlightened who see the story for what it is….“We” turns out to be the sect of modern-day Essenes living on the upper West Side, who have vowed to abstain from the illusions of the masses and consigned themselves to the cold, hard desert “reality” disclosed by reason. Lilla and his exceptionalist monastic brotherhood of enlightened “us” have girded their loins in order to make their way in the world without the comforts of faith and revelation [...]