"The issue here is not how many positive invocations of the body we hear"

      "But leaving these aspects and counter-movements aside, official Christianity has gone through what we can call an 'excarnation', a transfer out of embodied, 'enfleshed' forms of religious life, to those which are more 'in the head'.  In this it follows in parallel with 'Enlightenment', and modern unbelieving culture in general.  The issue here is not how many positive invocations of the body we hear; these abound in many forms of atheist materialism, as also in more Liberal Christianity.  The issue is whether our relation to the highest—God for believers, generally morality for unbelieving Aufklärer—is mediated in embodied form, as was plainly the case for parishioners 'creeping to the Cross' on Good Friday in pre-Reformation England.  Or looking to what moves us towards the highest, the issue to what degree our highest desires, those which allow us to discern the highest, are embodied, as the pity captured in the New Testament verb 'splangnizesthai' plainly is."

     Charles Taylor, A secular age (Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 554.