Charles Taylor on the Sources of Our Western Modern Identity (REVIEW ESSAY)
The Canadian Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor (born in 1931) discusses the sources of our Western modern identity in his book Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Harvard University Press, 1989). In it, he includes a great discussion of Christian theology. However, overall, I prefer the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong's account of our Western modern identity.