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1 For a related conception of a form of transcendence around the fullness of life that exceeds what he calls “exclusive humanism” see Charles Taylor, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). While similar to the proposal Chapter 10 Living Theological HumanismA Secular Age

2 Thomas L. Friedman, of theological humanism, we trust that out account of transcendence offers a gain in thought and life through the argument made for the integrity of life and how to construe what is of ultimate importance and reality with respect to human actions and relations.The Worlds is Flat: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century,
revd. edn. (New York: Picador, 2007). Also see Zygmunt Bauman, (Cambridge: Polity, 2005). Liquid Life

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