Revelation in a Desecrated World?

Roger Scruton in his book The Face of God distinguishes between the world of objects, in which science has the final say, and the world of "I" and "Thou", the only world in which humans can live a meaningful life. God can be found only in that world. Kafka observed, you can't talk about God (in the world of science), but you can talk to Him (in the personal world, the world in which human beings actually live).

The trouble is, Scruton thinks, the world of science and technology dominates, and is gradually erasing the world of the personal. Why? It offers "easier" living where sacrifice and suffering -- which are intensely personal -- are eliminated or ignored in favor of consumer-oriented self-satisfaction and shallow titillation. The result is a world of bodies, a desacralized world where God is banished, people are used, and the human face, and meaning itself, blur and fade away.
 
Can one re-discover the sacred in a world of materiality and objects? Scruton thinks that Christianity offers the best remaining insight into how to do so. He writes (at p. 172 of his The Face of God):

"The Christian God is agape, and even in a world that has launched itself on the path of desecration, he can show himself in the sacrificial acts of individual people, when they set aside the call of self-interest and act for others' sake. Acts of self-sacrifice appear in the world of objects and causes as revelations: the I that gives itself opens a window in the scheme of things through which we glimpse the light beyond - the I AM that spoke to Moses." (emphasis added) And the "I AM" who was incarnated in Jesus.

The love that matters, argues Scruton, is agape, for it is God's gift to us, a grace. We acknowledge this gift when we share it with others. Agape love expresses itself in self-sacrifice and alleviation of suffering of others and acceptance of our own suffering. It is the sign of God's presence in the world. (Eros, though essential, is fraught with temptation and consequences that are damaging for individual lovers and society.) Science can't comprehend agape, for it is a world apart, but we humans cannot live without it.

Agape potentially is found everywhere in our so-called secular world. It is found whenever persons act out of kindness, generosity, and self-sacrifice, and when they offer up their suffering for a greater good. When they do this, love erupts into the secular world as a revelation of the sacred, the human response to God's love for us revealed in the incarnation, death and resurrection of His son Jesus.