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Von Balthasar attempts to account for someone’s adopting and remaining within the Christian faith by pointing to human holiness as the most effectiveapologiaIn a word, his core intuition is that `the “perfect” Christian is also the perfect proof of the truth of Christianity¡. The saint is the apology for the Christian religion¡¯.1
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Harrison, V.S. (2000). Human Holiness as Religious Proof. In: The Apologetic Value of Human Holiness. Studies in Philosophy and Religion, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0872-3_6
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