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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...

after two years of coursework, amid taking exams, teaching, and writing the dissertation prospectus, usually, if one was married, there then followed divorce. Gallows humor, no doubt, but even clever gallows kill. This book is a chance, early in my professional life, to make a case for the guild I’m joining to set its eyes on theology that yields beautiful, abundant, transgressive, and reconciling life. Not that guild theology should naively become church theology. But perhaps guild theology would
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