MacDonald also demonstrates that courage and fear are paradoxically related. They have fundamental things in common and yet they point to very different outcomes. Both arise from the same deep wellsprings of our human condition. Both originate in our creaturely finiteness and our mortal nature as well as from our capacity and our need to love and be loved. Both are psychologically and spiritually counterpoised to death. Unlike fear, however, courage enables us to stand fast in the face of danger, not to waver or flee from it, but instead to thwart danger before it brings harm to us or to
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