Charles Taylor notes that moderns aspire to high moral standards, such as universal justice and benevolence, but lack the moral resources necessary to fulfill these standards. Instead, the weak motivations of egoism, guilt, and obligation result in hypocrisy or the projection of blame on others when we fail to meet these ideals. Taylor’s work seeks to uncover deep moral sources, such as agape , that make it possible to fulfill these standards. This article will complement Taylor’s excavation of powerful moral resources by arguing that Spirit baptism, understood as intense participation in divine love, is a retrieval of agape as an empowering moral source as well as a way to contact this source through spiritual articulation. It is a particular kind of retrieval that resonates with the modern sense of the self through a language of personal resonance and an elevation of the ordinary person into the extraordinary life.

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世俗时代的洗礼是道德的来源

查尔斯·泰勒（Charles Taylor）指出，现代人渴望达到较高的道德标准，例如普遍正义和仁慈，但缺乏实现这些标准所必需的道德资源。相反，当我们未能实现这些理想时，利己主义，内感和义务的薄弱动机会导致虚伪或将责任推卸给他人。泰勒（Taylor）的工作力求发现诸如agape之类的深层道德渊源，这些道德渊源可以满足这些标准。本文将通过论证圣灵的洗礼（被理解为对神的爱的强烈参与）是对作为一种授权的道德渊源的又一种龙舌兰的寻回，以及通过精神表达与之联系的方式，来补充泰勒挖掘强大的道德资源。