Kierkegaard And Religion

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253025029

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Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith by Jeffrey Hanson Pdf

“A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight to all three of Kierkegaard’s “problems,” dealing with Fear and Trembling as part of the entire corpus of Kierkegaard’s thought and putting all parts into relation with each other. Additionally, he offers a distinctive analysis of the Abraham story and other biblical texts, giving particular attention to questions of poetics, language, and philosophy, especially as each relates to the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Presented in a thoughtful and fresh manner, Hanson’s claims are original and edifying. This new reading of Kierkegaard will stimulate fruitful dialogue on well-traveled philosophical ground.

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107180581

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Kierkegaard and Religion by Sylvia Walsh Pdf

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

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ethics, Modern
ISBN : 9781932792355

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Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self by C. Stephen Evans Pdf

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"

Author : Daniel W. Conway,K. E. Gover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415235898

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Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophy of religion : Kierkegaard contra contemporary Christendom by Daniel W. Conway,K. E. Gover Pdf

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783780648

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How To Read Kierkegaard by John D. Caputo Pdf

Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and the critique of mass culture by over a century. John Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that numbers Martin Heidegger and Karl Barth among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming 'deed' and his haunting account of the 'single individual' seemed to have been written with us especially in mind. Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the jolting theory that truth is subjectivity and his ground-breaking analysis of the concept of anxiety.

Author : Jack Mulder, Jr.,Jack Mulder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Catholic Church
ISBN : 9780253355362

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Kierkegaard and the Catholic Tradition by Jack Mulder, Jr.,Jack Mulder Pdf

Although Søren Kierkegaard, considered one of the most passionate Christian writers of the modern age, was a Lutheran, he was deeply dissatisfied with the Lutheran establishment of his day. Some scholars have said that he pushed his faith toward Catholicism. Placing Kierkegaard in sustained dialogue with the Catholic tradition, Jack Mulder, Jr., does not simply review Catholic reactions to or interpretations of Kierkegaard, but rather provides an extended look into convergences and differences on issues such as natural theology, natural moral law, Christian love, apostolic authority, the doctrine of hell, contrition for sins, the doctrine of purgatory, and the communion of saints. Through his analysis of Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion, Mulder presents deeper possibilities for engagements between Protestantism and Catholicism.

Author : Roe Fremstedal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316513767

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Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion by Roe Fremstedal Pdf

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.

Author : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614835

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A Confusion of the Spheres by Genia Schönbaumsfeld Pdf

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 Schönbaumsfeld 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, Schönbaumsfeld 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.

Author : Sharon Krishek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139479912

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Kierkegaard on Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek Pdf

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.

Author : George B. Connell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802868046

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Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity by George B. Connell Pdf

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.

Author : W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441146731

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Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion by W. Glenn Kirkconnell Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard is simultaneously one of the most obscure philosophers of the Western world and one of the most influential. His writings have influenced atheists and faithful alike. Yet there is still widespread disagreement on many of the most important aspects of his thought. Kierkegaard was deliberately obscure in his writings, forcing the reader to interpret and reflect as Socrates did with incessant questioning. But at the same time that Kierkegaard was producing his esoteric, pseudonymous philosophical writings, he was also producing simpler, direct religious writings. Kierkegaard always claimed that he was, despite appearances, a religious writer. This important book accepts that claim and tests it. By using Kierkegaard's direct writings as he suggests, as the key to understanding the more obscure, indirect works, W. Glenn Kirkconnell aims to develop a coherent understanding of Kierkegaard's authorship and his theories.

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467456647

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Kierkegaard and Spirituality by C. Stephen Evans Pdf

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.

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781467442299

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Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith by Merold Westphal Pdf

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.

Author : Reidar Thomte
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781606082010

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Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion by Reidar Thomte Pdf

Reidar Thomte's Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion is an excellent read for students beginning their study of one of the greats of nineteenth and twentieth century philosophy. Thomte directly appropriates Kierkegaard's insightful language and discussion of the theological and philosophical issues that stimulated him, all of which are still alive and well today. This approach has the happy result that readers seeking an introduction do not have to be led through technical debates in order to approach Kierkegaard's thought. Thomte is a master of incisive summary; his presentations of crucial distinctions are level-headed and to the point. Kierkegaard's categories such as the stages on life's way (the aesthetic, the ethical, Religiousness A, and Religiousness B), the individual, subjectivity, the Paradox, the varieties of love, faith and knowledge, etc., are provocative and illuminating. Not only is this book a good a starter, it is also a comprehensive review of the principal issues in Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion. (by Robert L. Perkins, Editor, International Kierkegaard Commentary)

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052101042X

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Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Culture by George Pattison Pdf

Pattison examines Kierkegaard's religious thought in relation to contemporary debates about religion, culture and society.