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Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker
Author | : David J. Gouwens |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-02-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521555515 |
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Using Kierkegaard's later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher's religious and theological thought, focusing on human nature, Christ, and Christian discipleship. He helps the reader approach Kierkegaard as someone who both analysed religion and sought to evoke religious dispositions in his readers. Gouwens discusses Kierkegaard's main concerns as a religious and, specifically, Christian thinker, and his treatment of religion using the dialectic of 'becoming Christian', and counters the interpretation of his religious thought as privatistic and asocial. Gouwens appraises both the edifying discourses and the pseudonymous writings, including the particular problems posed by the latter. Between foundationalism and irrationalism, Kierkegaard's ideas are seen to anticipate the end of 'modernity', while standing at the centre of the Christian tradition.
Kierkegaard
Author | : Sylvia Walsh |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199208357 |
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Kierkegaard was a Christian thinker perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Sylvia Walsh explores his understanding of Christianity and the existential mode of thinking theologically appropriate to it in the context of the intellectual, cultural, and socio-political milieu of his time.
On Kierkegaard and the Truth
Author | : Paul L. Holmer |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2012-01-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781608992720 |
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Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a "crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on "truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth" empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and philosophy. This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers.
Kierkegaard s Concept of Faith
Author | : Merold Westphal |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781467442299 |
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In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker Søren Kierkegaard on biblical, Christian faith and its relation to reason. Across five books — Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Sickness Unto Death, and Practice in Christianity — and three pseudonyms, Kierkegaard sought to articulate a biblical concept of faith by approaching it from a variety of perspectives in relation to one another. Westphal offers a careful textual reading of these major discussions to present an overarching analysis of Kierkegaard’s conception of the true meaning of biblical faith. Though Kierkegaard presents a complex picture of faith through his pseudonyms, Westphal argues that his perspective is a faithful and illuminating one, making claims that are important for philosophy of religion, for theology, and most of all for Christian life as it might be lived by faithful people.
Kierkegaard
Author | : Peter Vardy |
Publsiher | : Liguori Publications |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Christian philosophers |
ISBN | : PSU:000032284669 |
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The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) devoted his life to exploring what it means to be a Christian. His prolific & varied writings sought to make people aware of the necessity of developing a relationship with God their creator. Kierkegaard's genius extended to psychology, philosophy, social criticism, & ethics, & his thinking & insights into the nature of faith influenced such thinkers as Barth, Kafka, Auden, & C.S. Lewis. This book reflects Kierkegaard's own purpose: to reintroduce Christianity into a world that has largely forgotten what it is.
The Philosophy of Kierkegaard
Author | : George Pattison |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317494249 |
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Although the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard played a pivotal role in the shaping of mainstream German philosophy and the history of French existentialism, the question of how philosophers should read Kierkegaard is a difficult one to settle. His intransigent religiosity has led some philosophers to view him as essentially a religious thinker of a singularly anti-philosophical attitude who should be left to the theologians. In this major new survey of Kierkegaard's thought, George Pattison addresses this question head on and shows that although it would be difficult to claim a "philosophy of Kierkegaard" as one could a philosophy of Kant, or of Hegel, there are nevertheless significant points of common interest between Kierkegaard's central thinking and the questions that concern philosophers today. The challenge of self-knowledge in an age of moral and intellectual uncertainty that lies at the heart of Kierkegaard's writings remains as important today as it did in the culture of post-Enlightenment modernity.
Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity
Author | : George B. Connell |
Publsiher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802868046 |
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S ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) famously critiqued Christendom -- especially the religious monoculture of his native Denmark. But what would he make of the dizzying diversity of religious life today? In this book George Connell uses Kierkegaard's thought to explore pressing questions that contemporary religious diversity poses. Connell unpacks an underlying tension in Kierkegaard, revealing both universalistic and particularistic tendencies in his thought. Kierkegaard's paradoxical vision of religious diversity, says Connell, allows for both respectful coexistence with people of different faiths and authentic commitment to one's own faith. Though Kierkegaard lived and wrote in a context very different from ours, this nuanced study shows that his searching reflections on religious faith remain highly relevant in our world today.
Kierkegaard and Christian Faith
Author | : Paul Henry Martens,C. Stephen Evans |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1481304704 |
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8. The Apophatic Self and the Way of Forgetting -- 9. The Rule of Chaos and the Perturbation of Love -- 10. Secrecy, Corruption, and the Exchange of Reasons -- 11. Kierkegaard and the Peaceable Kingdom -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index