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Fools for Christ: Essays on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful is unavailable, but you can change that!

Fools for Christ is a brilliant and balanced examination of the true, the good, and the beautiful. Pelikan first examines Kierkegaard and Paul, analyzing the relationship between the true and the holy. Next he examines Dostoevsky and Luther, and the relationship between the good and the holy. Lastly Pelikan looks at Nietzsche and Bach, and the relationship between the beautiful and the holy. The...

KIERKEGAARD One of the values with which the Holy has frequently been identified is the True. It has been the peculiar temptation of systematic theology to make such an identification, and the history of Christian theology is replete with examples of the tendency to make faith equivalent to the acceptance of a set of truths. From its very beginnings, the Christian church has faced this tendency. The Gnostic heresy, which seems to have appeared within the church during
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