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Jul 7
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William Desmond: The Preservation of Com...

Paul Axton
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William Desmond describes the danger of the "all and all" in an Eastern sensibility, of subsuming all things into one rather than preserving difference. He describes the prejudice against belief and his preservation of Christian faith against the philosophical tide of the academy.  

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