Fools for Christ adopted a pedagogy of playing that shares resemblances with and yet was different from the pedagogy of playing adopted by the Rheinland nuns. Holy foolery was an ascetic practice engaged for the sake of being formed in Christ-like ways and (by doing so) being in communion with God. This is not unlike the playing of the Rheinland nuns, whose pedagogy nurtured the spiritual formation of individuals in relation to Mary and the Christ child. Like the nuns, one can imagine the saints becoming lost in the performance of being fools, yet they might experience being found
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Why Holy foolery
