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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...

to subvert the foundations upon which the identification of the Holy and the True had been built, making such an identification impossible for anyone who took his critiques seriously. As we shall see, Kant disposed of one error only to fall into another, he rejected intellectualism to embrace moralism. More significant in the present context is the fact that in spite of the deathblow which Kant dealt to intellectualism at the close of the eighteenth century, there were still many who fell right back
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