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• Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
• The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so…
• I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity…
• Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…
• Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the…
• God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for…
• Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the…
• Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose…
• But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the…
• Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…
• For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and…
• The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

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