The Primacy of Love novel Maud’s father

Maud’s father

and Phaedo each present an element of the Socratic vision of death

and a faithful disciple

(Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton)

with a concluding reflection on Church history

The Primacy of Love novel Maud’s fatherBy August Adam Introduction by Ulrich L. Lehner Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated into a vice. Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil indicts Christianity for the corruption of desire. In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI refutes Nietzsche, demonstrating that the Gospel actually restores loves true grandeur. Too often, however, Christian preaching has failed to comprehend that truth. In The