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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...

omnipotent love. This new vision informed what constitutes that from which humans need redemption; for instance, rather than considering “impurity” as sin, Jesus considered absence of love toward those who were deemed impure as sin (Luke 8:42–48; 11:37–44). The new vision also shaped how the work of “repair” was to take place; for instance, he taught that it cannot occur through the use of violence against wrongdoers but must occur through the bearing of their sin and the transformation of their
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