But with such a naïve conception of “apologetics”, the Christian spiritual mountain climber soon comes up against an impassable crevasse. To be sure, he manages to attain a certain height using this method of summation and integration, but he suddenly sees that, if he were to keep on following this path (presuming it were even accessible), he would come, not to Christ, but to Hegel. That is, he would reach “absolute knowing”, which absorbs the Christian faith into itself (perhaps optima fide, in