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This is truly a profound question and one of the dramatic implications of the incarnation. Another key question is raised by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, “What do I find in my deepest core to be true?” On reflection, he saw the answer as self-sacrificial love (agape) found in Jesus of Nazareth. For Kierkegaard, God was his way out of anxiety and despair. Here he thought was the “truth that edifies.” Philosopher Immanuel Kant saw, especially in his third tome on practical reason, that the existential human need was for justice and the good to prevail, and only a being such as an omni-benevolent and powerful God was adequate to secure this guarantee. There had to be a cosmic will, he thought, for human goodness to prevail. We have argued in this book that this works out in the culture of incarnational spirituality. This source in God would lead us to always treat others as an end in themselves rather than a selfish means to our ends. UBC philosopher Anders Kraal once noted i

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