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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...

easily be mistaken for the holiness of God. From this fact we can understand why Christian thinkers have sometimes become idolatrous in handling the problem of value. At the same time, this fact shows that the problem of value is too important to ignore. The goal of Christian faith is to subject the total life to God, to “take every thought captive to obey Christ.” All life is under God, depending upon and subject to Him. Indeed, the very things which the natural mind makes the objects of its idolatrous
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