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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...

meaning, so that meaning is determined at the expense of life. The dualism is further enhanced by their common insistence on placing the value of reason above instinct. Salvation in the security of the Christian God or the Platonic world of Forms is enabled through rational contemplation and the eradication of desires (which are deemed within these models to be transitory and unreliable aspects of the contingent and finite world). Just as Nietzsche calls us to facilitate the changing nature of life
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