Paradox
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Paradoxes in Theology
When i was young, i had this belief that exposing a paradox was a silver bullet argument sanion renision. But my view about the role of religious paradoxes, especially in connection to christianity, really changed when i was an undergraduate student at the university of nevada. And i read the work of the danish philosopher and theologian, soren kirkegard, who makes the fascinating claim that one should be a christian, not in spite of, but because of the paradoxical content of christianity. So if you want to be a real christian, you have to really lean into the paradoxical aspect of your faith, rather than trying to shy
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