Gregor McLennan reviews Terry Eagleton's Trouble with Strangers and Reason, Faith, and Revolution in the latest New Left Review (64, July-August 2010). It's required reading if all this St Paul and so-called revolutionary Christianity talk of the post-secular turn has made you think that, as McLennan writes,
The whole discussion, moreover, rests on what is becoming an uncritical dogma in contemporary post-secularism: that recurrent metaphysical puzzlement signals the timeless irrepressibility and primacy of religion rather than our continuous cognitive and imaginative activity, of which religion is but one (variable) expression.
