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The SPCK Introduction to Nietzsche: His Religious Thought is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first introductory book on Nietzsche to engage explicitly with his affirmative religious perspective and highlight what exactly Christians can learn from it. Friedrich Nietzsche, a key figure of modern and postmodern Western thought, is associated with many slogans and buzzwords—perhaps most famously, “God is dead.” This introduction rescues Nietzsche’s religious project from the...

and now, and as an end in itself. The value of life is in the living of it. The meaning of life cannot be encapsulated in thought, but in body. Life isn’t determined in its abstract contemplation, it is an ever-present, ceaseless activity. Indeed, as we saw in the introduction to this book, Nietzsche claims that there is no ‘meaning’ or ‘truth’ of life to discover, for ‘our most sacred convictions, the unchanging elements in our supreme values, are judgements of our muscles’ (WP 314). Physiological
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