Secularized moral concepts inherit Christian forms while losing their epistemic grounding.

Evidence

What is remarkable about Card’s argument is that it illustrates discussions in environmental moral philosophy that inch toward a concept of evil that is a secularized form of Christian concepts. This, in other words, seems to me to represent the latest installment in the transpositional relationship between Christian and secularist concepts, where the latter become a transformed version of the former, just as with political concepts. The problem with such transpositions is that they jettison much of their epistemic and ethical foregrounding, leaving them floating without a proper subjectification. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 993

Categorization

• XREF: Consonant with the book’s central thesis from earlier chapters that Western secular moral categories are Christian concepts in secular garb. — connects to: Christianity’s spiritual turn ceded worldly life to profane authority
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that secularism is a transposition of Christian concepts, and that transposition strips the epistemic foregrounding that gave them meaning, is a genuinely dense, paradigm-shifting idea.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 993