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The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today’s pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life—for ourselves, our neighbors, and the planet as a whole—is neglected in our universities, our churches, and our culture at large. Although we increasingly have...

therefore it conspires to present itself as godliness. And yet there is a fundamental difference. Today’s critique, as a rule, offers no positive alternative; its normativity is antinormative.36 Unlike the prophets of old, many theologians today engage not just in criticism but in what some critics of critique have called “critiquiness.”37 They shy away from offering a positive vision in whose service they undertake their critique; for then this vision, too, would recursively become a target of the
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