June 9, 2006

The Exhaustion of Secularism

By C. JOHN SOMMERVILLE

Christian scholars have complained recently that they don't have a voice in the academy, or not as much as they should. Normally that is put as a matter of justice, since the great bulk of the American population identifies itself as religious, while universities make a point of not recognizing any such point of view. Secularists, meanwhile, fear that whatever religious concepts remain would be very personal beliefs and merely divisive.

My argument is different: that the secularism

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