Kierkegaard And Spirituality

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587687396

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Søren Kierkegaard by Anonim Pdf

The first volume of sources and commentary devoted exclusively to Kierkegaard’s spirituality.

Author : Lecturer in Analytic and Exegetical Theology Joshua Cockayne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481310879

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Contemporary with Christ by Lecturer in Analytic and Exegetical Theology Joshua Cockayne Pdf

The Christian life, concerned with both spirituality and doctrine, aims not at rationally defensible truth but at life-transforming love. Greater understanding of the truth will not settle the restlessness in a human spirit; only the redemptive power of relationship with God can calm the soul. The crux of Kierkegaard's presentation of Christianity is not that doctrine is unimportant, but that it is ultimately insufficient for a life lived in relationship with God. In Contemporary with Christ, Joshua Cockayne explores the Christian spiritual life with Søren Kierkegaard (in the guise of his various pseudonyms) as his guide and analytic theology as his key tool of engagement. Cockayne contends that the Christian life is second-personal: it seeks encounter with a personal God. As Kierkegaard describes, God invites us to live on the most intimate terms with God. Cockayne argues that this vision of Christian spirituality is deeply practical because it advocates for a certain way of acting and existing. This approach to the Christian life moves from first-reflection, whereby one acquires objective knowledge, to second-reflection, whereby one attains deeper self-understanding, which fortifies one's relationship with God. Individuals encounter Christ through traditional practices: prayer, the Eucharist, and the reading of Scripture. However, experiences of suffering and mortality that mirror Christ's own passion also enliven this life of encounter. Spiritual progress comes through a reorientation of one's will, desire, and self-knowledge. Such progress must ultimately serve the goal of drawing close to God through Christ's presence. Engaging philosophy, theology, and psychology, Cockayne invites us to join in a conversation with Kierkegaard and explore how the spiritual disciplines provide opportunities for relationship with God by becoming contemporary with Christ. --C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Christopher Baldwin Barnett
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451474695

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From Despair to Faith by Christopher Baldwin Barnett Pdf

From Despair to Faith analyzes the spiritual insights and writings of Sren Kierkegaard. Christopher B. Barnett orients readers to Kierkegaards grounding in the Christian spiritual tradition and his authorial stress on themes like upbuilding, spiritual journey, and faith. Barnett maintains that Kierkegaards spirituality is best understood through the various pictures that populate his authorship. These icons of faith, represent and communicate what Kierkegaard sees as the fulfillment of Christian existence. Barnett shows how Kierkegaards writings serve to illuminate and to deepen one's relationship with the divine.

Author : Simon D Podmore
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227902110

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Struggling with God by Simon D Podmore Pdf

Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness of God and the self, the problem of suffering and evil, the freedom of Spirit, and the anxious relationship between temptation and ordeal, fear and desire. This book traces a genealogy of spiritual trial from medieval German mystical theology, through Lutheran and Pietistic thought (Tauler; Luther; Arndt; Boehme), and reconstructs Kierkegaard's innovative yet under-examined recovery of the category (AnfAegtelse: a Danish cognate for Anfechtung) within the modern context of the 'spiritless' decline of Christendom. Developing the relationship between struggle (Anfechtung) and release (Gelassenheit), Podmore proposes a Kierkegaardian theology of spiritual trial which elaborates the kenosis of the self before God in terms of Spirit's restless longing to rest transparently in God. Offering an original rehabilitation of the temptation of spiritual trial, this book strives for a renewed theological hermeneutic which speaks to the enduring human struggle to realise the unchanging love of God in the face of spiritual darkness.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691180830

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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging works In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and written in stunningly lucid prose, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaard's most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction, this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entrée to an essential modern thinker. The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialism—unshorn of his complexity and subtlety, yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book, "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself, I said much of what needs to be said, but movingly, mildly, upliftingly." This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaard's most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022151513

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Provocations by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the ''mediocre shell'' of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly, it brings to a new generation a man whose writings pare away the fluff of modern spirituality to reveal the basics of the Christ-centered life: decisiveness, obedience, and recognition of the truth.

Author : Daniel W. Conway,K. E. Gover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Avi Sagi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493964

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Kierkegaard, Religion, and Existence by Avi Sagi Pdf

This book is an original philosophic exploration of the meaning of Kierkegaard’s life, his thought, and his works. It makes a bold case for Kierkegaard’s recognition of the concrete existence of the individual, including Kierkegaard himself, as crucial to the spiritual life. Written with delicate insight, and beautifully translated from Hebrew, this work offers valuable new turns to understanding the puzzling life-work of a modern giant of spiritual reflection.

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Soren Kierkegaard,George Pattison
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061875996

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Spiritual Writings by Soren Kierkegaard,George Pattison Pdf

In this new collection, Oxford theologian George Pattison translates and selects SØren Kierkegaard's previously neglected writings on spirituality—works that greatly deepen our understanding of the influential thinker. In philosophy and literature, Kierkegaard ("By far the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century"—Ludwig Wittgenstein) is generally perceived as epitomizing existential angst. However, there is much more to Kierkegaard than the popular image of the “melancholy Dane” or the iconoclastic critic of established Christendom. Alongside the pseudonymous books for which he is largely known, Kierkegaard also wrote many devotional works, which he called "upbuilding" or "edifying" discourses. Taken as a whole, these writings offer something very different from the popular view—they embody a spirituality grounded in a firm sense of human life as a divine gift.

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226470571

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The Prayers of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. Nearly 100 of his prayers are gathered here, illuminating his own life of prayer and speaking to the concerns of Christians today.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780062030177

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Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

In Kierkegaard’s view, faith is the most essential task of life. Faith is not a matter of dogmatic adherence, but rather of subjective passion. In Purity of Heart, Kierkegaard discusses multiple facets of human existence, particularly the responsibility of each person to single-mindedly seek out spiritual understanding and ethical integrity. While insisting that each reader must find their own path, Kierkegaard does offer clues to the nature of goodness. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian. Much of his work deals with religious problems such as faith in God, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. “About the greatness of the book there can be no question. It should be regarded as the equivalent of shock therapy.”—The Living Church