It is increasingly problematic to encounter transcendence in the excessive intimacy demanded by some current «liturgies» and the special reading of a variety of new orthodoxies. (religion-online.org)
McDougall calls it «a mystical, magical, shape - shifting civil religion whose orthodoxies can turn into heresies and whose heresies can turn into new orthodoxies.» (firstthings.com)
His account culminates in a bracing discussion of the threat posed by the emerging new orthodoxy of secular egalitarianism. (firstthings.com)