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In praise of wisdom : literary and theological reflections on faith and reason

Print Book, English, 2004
Continuum, New York, 2004
xvi, 160 p. ; 24 cm
9780826416032, 0826416039
1120627117
The sins of the father : evil and folly in the Old Testament and Dostoevsky
The eternal feminine draws us upward : feminine wisdom in the Old Testament, Augustine, and Goethe's Faust
Reason in madness : the wisdom of folly in the New Testament and King Lear
The inadequacy of reason in Ecclesiastes and Pensées
The meaning of suffering in Job and Moby Dick
Conclusion: Life and love with wisdom of the heart