We are perennially tempted to reduce Christianity to something less than itself: either to power (will, faith, law) or to philosophy (knowledge, reason, wisdom). Nominalists tend to do the former. Realists tend to do the latter. But the solution to this supreme problem in binary logic is through a third and higher thing: love, in which both will and knowledge are reconciled and held in balance—or rather, in which both are transcended. God is love, in which both will and knowledge are comprised. Whatever your intellectual quarry, if you pursue it to its ultimate lair, you will find the mark of
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