This is because ultimately Taylor wants to try to communicate what it feels like to live in a secular age, what it feels like to inhabit the cross-pressured space of modernity. Jager thus reformulates Taylor’s question in light of this methodology: “What does secularity feel like from the inside?” This changes how we approach the argument: “When Taylor says he has a story to tell, he means that his account must be undergone, not simply paraphrased or glossed.”
