“So for example, the world is not increasingly secular. It is always secular, by definition, and the Church is here for the sake of this world. But it is not that society is secular while Christians are religious, but rather the other way around. All members of this secular society are propelled by unnameable forces, and defer to authorities that are the creations of fear and superstition. They are in denial about this, and unable to name these forces, and it is precisely this that makes these so effectively their religions. Christianity is a secular movement in that it frees us from submission to such phenomena. The gospel frees us from the gods of this world.”
Taken from the Preface to The Eschatological Economy: Time and the Hospitality of God.
