Author: George B. ConnellPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity
Author: George B. ConnellKierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity
Author: George B. ConnellPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802868045
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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 the Paradox of Religious Diversity
Author: George B. ConnellPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467445185
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Søren 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.
The Anti-Christianity of Kierkegaard
Author: Herbert M. GarelickPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401509034
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The Reconstruction of Religion
Author: Jan-Olav HenriksenPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498220940
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Reconstruction of Religion explores the thoughts of three influential philosophers--G. E. Lessing, Soren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche--looking in particular at their influential approaches to the relationship between religion and modernity. In a period of a little more than one hundred years, Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche each developed a different theory of religion. Rejecting the possibility of maintaining religious faith on the old foundation of church tradition, these thinkers formulated new ways of understanding religion in response to the challenges of modernity. Though the conclusions of each system are different, there remain important elements in common between them, such as the importance of "religious subjectivity." Jan-Olav Henriksen compares and contrasts the thought of Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, showing that each of these philosophers still has something important to contribute to understanding religion in our own postmodern era. For anyone interested in the position of religious belief in today's world, these reconstructions of religion are of great value. In addition to their place in the history of ideas, these three philosophical approaches anticipate some of the recent issues relating to religion in postmodernity. Henriksen's perceptive work moves beyond the level of historical analysis to insightful rereadings of Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche that help us better understand the place of religion in our pluralistic society.
Subjectivity and Religious Truth in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard
Author: Merigala GabrielPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881461709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Merigala Gabriel's main objective is to thoroughly examine subjective truth, which is the core concept in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Here Gabriel contrast subjective truth with objective truth in order to highlight the significance of subjective truth in its religious context and to bring out the inadequacy of objective truth. The principle of absolute paradox connected with the subjective truth is also discussed. The study also aims to present a detailed analysis of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious stages that represent existential dialectic, to examine their interrelationship and to show how the religious mode of existence is the key to genuineness in real existence. Care is taken to examine the disjunction between reason and faith: to bring out the importance of "faith" in Christianity and to show the limitations of science as far as Christianity is concerned. Gabriel also addresses the relation between God and Man. Finally, the importance of Kierkegaard's thought and his contribution to the development of "subjectivity and religious truth" are outlined.
Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophy of religion : Kierkegaard contra contemporary Christendom
Author: Daniel W. ConwayPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415235891
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Faith, Reason, and History
Author: Robert Campbell RobertsPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865542280
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Kierkegaard and Religion
Author: Sylvia WalshPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316853144
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
No thinker has reflected more deeply on the role of religion in human life than Søren Kierkegaard, who produced in little more than a decade an astonishing number of works devoted to an analysis of the kind of personality, character, and spiritual qualities needed to become an authentic human being or self. Understanding religion to consist essentially as an inward, passionate, personal relation to God or the eternal, Kierkegaard depicts the art of living religiously as a self through the creation of a kaleidoscope of poetic figures who exemplify the constituents of selfhood or the lack thereof. The present study seeks to bring Kierkegaard into conversation with contemporary empirical psychology and virtue ethics, highlighting spiritual dimensions of human existence in his thought that are inaccessible to empirical measurement, as well as challenging on religious grounds the claim that he is a virtue ethicist in continuity with the classical and medieval virtue tradition.
Kierkegaard
Author: Peter VardyPublisher: Liguori Publications
ISBN:
Category : Christian philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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.