"Souls In Transition"

Per Chris Smith on pp. 45-46 of his newest book, Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults, “Most emerging adults have great difficulty grasping the idea that a reality that is objective to their own awareness or construction of it may exist . . . . They seem to presuppose that they are simply imprisoned in their own subjective selves. . . . They simply cannot believe in--or sometimes even conceive of--a given, objective truth, fact, reality, or nature of the world is that is independent of their subjective self-experience. . . . What emerging adults take to be reality ultimately seems to consist of subjective but ultimately autonomous experiences.  People are thus trying to communicate with each other in order simply to be able to get along and enjoy life as they see fit.”  (Emphasis added.)

The Emerging Adult Catechism Q. 1 “What is my chief end?”  A. “My chief end is to get along and enjoy myself for as long as possible.”

I don’t get this sense from my largely EA students but law students (especially at Regent) are probably not representative of EAs generally.