Once again, the motivations of Reform were theocentric, but in the centuries that followed, the secondary goal of understanding and reforming the world in accordance with the primary goal of conforming to God’s Word began to become an end in itself. Interest in this world (the immanent) grew large enough to eclipse concerns about the next (the transcendent). An immanent frame was constructed to enclose the world in a space that entertains no ends beyond ordinary human flourishing.37 Taylor makes
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