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This volume is a collection of Josef Pieper’s famous treatises on the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of 37 years. On Hope was written in 1934 in response to the despair of that era. On Faith was derived from a series of lectures he gave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His most difficult...

as natural man is seriously faced with this conception of God, he finds something shocking in it. As C. S. Lewis says in his Miracles, It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out!” we cry, “it’s alive.” … An “impersonal God”—well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads—better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a, vast power which we can tap—best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord,
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