While Catholics typically employed Nietzsche to distinguish Catholicism from an all-too-worldly Protestantism, both Catholics and Protestants agreed that Nietzsche’s assaults on Christianity helped the faith more than they hurt it. Even the modernist-friendly critic Petre argued that Nietzsche’s supreme contribution was his facilitation of a reaffirmation of religious faith: “we can learn from [Nietzsche] something that will enrich the truths we already possess.”40 Nietzsche thus identified and exemplified the problems of secular philosophy as a source of values and meanings. He demonstrated
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