Kierkegaard and Religion

Kierkegaard and Religion
Author: Sylvia Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107180589

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Focusing on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue, this work examines what it means to exist religiously for Kierkegaard.

Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Kierkegaard on Faith and Love
Author: Sharon Krishek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-07-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139479911

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Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith. Sharon Krishek argues that for Kierkegaard the connection between love and faith is far from being merely illustrative. Rather, love and faith have a common structure, and are involved with one another in a way that makes it impossible to love well without faith. Remarkably, this applies to romantic love no less than to neighbourly love. Krishek's original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling shows that preferential love, and in particular romantic love, plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed.

Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity

Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity
Author: George B. Connell
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0802868045

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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's Concept of Faith

Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith
Author: Merold Westphal
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1467442291

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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.

Soren Kierkegaard's Christian Psychology

Soren Kierkegaard's Christian Psychology
Author: C. Stephen Evans
Publisher: Regent College Pub
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1995-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781573830386

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Evans unfolds the implications and effects of the human desire for wholeness and growth of the self.

Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self

Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self
Author: C. Stephen Evans
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006
Genre: Ethics, Modern
ISBN: 193279235X

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Evans makes a strong case that Kierkegaard has something crucial to say to the Christian church as a philosopher and something equally crucial to say to the philosophical world as a Christian believer.--Robert L. Perkins, Stetson University and Editor, International Kierkegaard Commentary "Prespectives in Religious Studies"

Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1625584024

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In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that everybody has faith, for otherwise it would be queer for them to be . . . going further. In those old days it was different, then faith was a task for a whole lifetime, because it was assumed that dexterity in faith is not acquired in a few days or weeks. When the tried oldster drew near to his last hour, having fought the good fight and kept the faith, his heart was still young enough not to have forgotten that fear and trembling which chastened the youth, which the man indeed held in check, but which no man quite outgrows. . . except as he might succeed at the earliest opportunity in going further. Where these revered figures arrived, that is the point where everybody in our day begins to go further.

Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard
Author: Sylvia Walsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199208352

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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.

Kierkegaard and Spirituality

Kierkegaard and Spirituality
Author: C. Stephen Evans
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467456640

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We live spiritually when we live in the presence of God. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is often read for his contributions to Christian theology, but he also has much to offer about spirituality—both Christian and more generally human. C. Stephen Evans assesses Kierkegaard’s belief that true spirituality should be seen as accountability: the grateful recognition of our existence as gift. Spirituality takes on a Christian flavor when one recognizes in Jesus Christ the human incarnation of the God who gives us being. In this clearly written and substantive book a leading scholar on Kierkegaard’s thought makes Kierkegaard’s contributions to spirituality accessible not only to philosophers and theologians but to pastors, spiritual directors, and lay Christians. The Kierkegaard and Christian Thought series, coedited by C. Stephen Evans and Paul Martens, aims to promote an enriched understanding of nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian Søren Kierkegaard in relation to other key figures in theology and key theological concepts.

A Confusion of the Spheres

A Confusion of the Spheres
Author: Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191614831

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Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Sch?nbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's concerted criticisms of certain standard conceptions of religious belief, and defends their own positive conception against the common charges of 'irrationalism' and 'fideism'. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.