The new understanding of the secular that I have been describing builds on this separation. It affirms, in effect, that the “lower,” immanent or secular, order is all that there is and that the higher, or transcendent, is a human invention. Obviously, the prior invention of a clear-cut distinction between these levels prepared the ground for the “declaration of independence” of the immanent.
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