Abstract

Charles Taylor is one of the most important philosophers writing today. He has both chronicled and to some extent explained the profound cultural revolution of the West that is called secularism along with its close associate called pluralism. Nevertheless, he has struggled throughout his vast corpus to examine and reevaluate the deeper epistemological and ontological structures that underly this pervasive cultural revolution. His recent text with Hubert Dreyfus Retrieving Realism is perhaps his most concentrated effort to pursue this more technical philosophical issue. This paper argues that there are key aspects of this effort that can be transposed to a consideration of the central Christian notion and doctrine concerning”death and bodily resurrection,” giving this question and issue a renewed philosophical valence.