ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Christian theology's relation to the arts. It then explores four commonly held philosophical assumptions about the world in which one now live. Technically known as dualism, it spoke of human beings as consisting of two substances, mortal bodies and immortal souls, and thus of us inhabiting the visible earth as the home of matter and an invisible reality that is the home of minds, ours and God's. The chapter then discusses three significant books namely, Michael Buckley's At the Origin of Modern Atheism, Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and Michael Gillespie's The Theological Origins of Modernity. It also focuses on an area involving a claim that is perhaps more prominent in those influenced by continental rather than British analytic philosophy, namely the whole issue of cultural conditioning, of the way in which even despite ourselves one are caught up in the cultural assumptions of their time.
