Angels and Kingdoms - First Things

Angels and Kingdoms - First Things

We are familiar with the “disenchantment” thesis about modern culture. When Max Weber suggested it in the early twentieth century, it seemed to fit many aspects of Western life at the time. Perhaps it still does. A rationally ordered imagination and practice—think “science”—gradually evacuates spiritual vitality from our common experience of the world. We live today in a landscape emptied of the gods and their ghostly minions. I tend to agree wi…