Kierkegaard S Christocentric Theology

Author : Tim Rose
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025300679

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Kierkegaard's Christocentric Theology by Tim Rose Pdf

Kierkegaard was both a brilliant writer and perceptive theologian. Introducing a literary approach to Kierkegaard's theological writings, this book explores literary perspectives frequently overlooked by theological studies, and theological and philosophical underpinnings and interpretations which have been allowed only a cursory glance in literary studies on Kierkegaard. Tim Rose's combined insights from literary theory and philosophy open up the riches of Kierkegaard's theology to the full.Exploring a wide range of Kierkegaard's writings and his contribution to three key areas: theology of revelation, Christology, and the rationality of religious faith, this book offers a new perspective on key themes in Kierkegaard's religious thought, pointing to Christian theology as an enterprise of 'faith seeking understanding' as the believer, through grace, struggles to understand the difficulties of personal revelation that runs counter to the world's expectations.

Author : Timothy Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138718122

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Kierkegaard's Christocentric Theology by Timothy Rose Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. Introducing a literary approach to Kierkegaard's theological writings, this book explores various literary perspectives, theological and philosophical underpinnings, and interpretations. Exploring a range of Kierkegaard's writings and his contribution to three key areas: theology of revelation, Christology, and the rationality of religious faith, this book offers a new perspective on key themes in Kierkegaard's religious thought, pointing to Christian theology as an enterprise of "faith seeking understanding" as the believer, through grace, struggles to understand the difficulties of personal revelation that runs counter to the world's expectations.

Author : Alan J. Torrance,Andrew B. Torrance
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467466837

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Beyond Immanence by Alan J. Torrance,Andrew B. Torrance Pdf

Critical insights into Kierkegaard’s influence on Barth’s theology. Karl Barth was often critical of Søren Kierkegaard’s ideas as he understood them. But close reading of the two corpora reveals that Barth owes a lot to the melancholy Dane. Both conceive of God as infinitely qualitatively different from humans, and both emphasize the shocking nearness of God in the incarnation. As public intellectuals, they used this theological vision to protect Christocentric faith from political manipulation and compromise. For Kierkegaard, this meant criticizing the state church; for Barth, this entailed resisting Nazism. Meticulously crafted by a father-son team of renowned systematic theologians, Beyond Immanence demonstrates that Kierkegaard and Barth share a theological trajectory—one that resists cynical manipulation of Christianity for political purposes in favor of uncompromising devotion to a God who is radically transcendent yet established kinship with humanity in time.

Author : Todd Speidell,Greg Marcar,Andrew Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666709100

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Soren Kierkegaard by Todd Speidell,Greg Marcar,Andrew Torrance Pdf

This volume focuses on Søren Kierkegaard as a theologian of the gospel of God's grace, rather than as the “Father of Existentialism.” In so doing, it illuminates his vision of humans as relational beings who find fulfillment in the loving embrace of God with us (thus making him a would-be critic of later secular forms of “Existentialism”).

Author : Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1409444791

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Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant theology by Jon Bartley Stewart Pdf

Tome II is dedicated to tracing Kierkegaard's influence in Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant religious thought. In Britain, before World War I, the few literati who were familiar with his work tended to assimilate Kierkegaard to the heroic individualism of Ibsen and Nietzsche. In the United States knowledge of Kierkegaard was introduced by Scandinavian immigrants who brought with them a picture of the Dane as much more sympathetic to traditional Christianity. The interpretation of Kierkegaard in Britain and America during the early and mid-twentieth century generally reflected the sensibilities of the particular theological interpreter. Anglican theologians tended to find Kierkegaard to be one-sided in his critique of reason and culture, while theologians hailing from the Reformed tradition often saw him as an insightful harbinger of neo-orthodoxy. The second part of Tome II is dedicated to the Kierkegaard reception in Scandinavian theology, featuring articles on Norwegian and Swedish theologians influenced by Kierkegaard.

Author : David R. Law
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191612121

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Kierkegaard's Kenotic Christology by David R. Law Pdf

The orthodox doctrine of the incarnation affirms that Christ is both truly divine and truly human. This, however, raises the question of how these two natures can co-exist in the one, united person of Christ without undermining the integrity of either nature. Kenotic theologians address this problem by arguing that Christ 'emptied' himself of his divine attributes or prerogatives in order to become a human being. David R. Law contends that a type of kenotic Christology is present in Kierkegaard's works, developed independently of the Christologies of contemporary kenotic theologians. Like many of the classic kenotic theologians of the 19th century, Kierkegaard argues that Christ underwent limitation on becoming a human being. Where he differs from his contemporaries is in emphasizing the radical nature of this limitation and in bringing out its existential consequences. The aim of Kierkegaard's Christology is not to provide a rationally satisfying theory of the incarnation, but to highlight the existential challenge with which Christ confronts each human being. Kierkegaard advances 'existential kenoticism', a form of kenotic Christology which extends the notion of the kenosis of Christ to the Christian believer, who is called upon to live a life of kenotic discipleship in which the believer follows Christ's example of lowly, humble, and suffering service. Kierkegaard thus shifts the problem of kenosis from the intellectual problem of working out how divinity and humanity can be united in Christ's Person to the existential problem of discipleship.

Author : Lee C. Barrett III
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426762123

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Kierkegaard by Lee C. Barrett III Pdf

Abingdon Pillars of Theology is a series for the college and seminary classroom designed to help students grasp the basic and necessary facts, influence, and significance of major theologians. Written by noted scholars, these books will outline the context, methodology, organizing principles, primary contributions, and key writings of people who have shaped theology as we know it today.Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "foresaw, the power of mass culture to numb the human spirit has only waxed in strength and virulence. The prostitution of religion to legitimate self-aggrandizing ideologies has become a veritable global industry. The reduction of neighbor-love to the most minimal standards of decent behavior has devolved to the point where slightly altruistic celebrities are heralded as Christ-like saints. The deep yearnings of the human heart are being suffocated by trivial amusements, technological toys, and the manipulation of the psyche. Now, perhaps more than ever, Christianity needs an aggravating Socrates to disturb its complicity with a culture of individual self-gratification and corporate self-deification." from the bookLee C. Barrett, III is Mary B. and Hanry P. Stager Chair in Theology, Professor of Systematic Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Author : Dr Christopher B Barnett
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409481379

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Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness by Dr Christopher B Barnett Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard wrote that Pietism is 'the one and only consequence of Christianity'. Praise of this sort - particularly when coupled with Kierkegaard's significant personal connections to the movement in Christian spirituality known as Pietism - would seem to demand thorough investigation. And yet, Kierkegaard's relation to Pietism has been largely neglected in the secondary literature. Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness fills this scholarly gap and, in doing so, provides the first full-length study of Kierkegaard's relation to the Pietist movement. First accounting for Pietism's role in Kierkegaard's social, ecclesial, and intellectual background, Barnett goes on to demonstrate Pietism's impact on Kierkegaard's published authorship, principally regarding the relationship between Christian holiness and secular culture. This book not only establishes Pietism as a formative influence on Kierkegaard's life and thinking, but also sheds fresh light on crucial Kierkegaardian concepts, from the importance of 'upbuilding' to the imitation of Christ.

Author : Daniel W. Conway,K. E. Gover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : George Pattison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625645029

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Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith by George Pattison Pdf

The standing of the Danish philosopher and religious thinker S¿ren Kierkegaard has gone up in recent years. Yet because he regarded communication as being as much about self-concealment as about self-revelation, he can still seem a forbidding and difficult figure. The deliberate ambiguity of Kierkegaard, in which he set out to repel as much as to attract his readers, is here explored by George Pattison, who gives full attention to the scandalous element of the philosopher's work, and does not shy away from his ambivalent attitudes towards sexuality, the body, marriage, and the family. This book is unlike other nontechnical introductions to Kierkegaard in that it does not seek to promote one part of Kierkegaard's writings over others, but offers, rather, a perspective on his life and output as a whole. That Kierkegaard grappled in his own age with many of the problems which beset our own, and frequently offered fascinating responses to those problems, is a major incentive to examine his thought today. By placing Kierkegaard in the context of a "crisis of faith"and making valuable connections between events in the philosopher's life and the development of his thinking, the author of this timely, readable, and attractively written study has produced a book which should be of interest to a wide nonspecialist readership.

Author : John Losee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351472326

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Theology on Trial by John Losee Pdf

Soren Kierkegaard sought to clarify what it means to be a Christian. He concluded that a one-on-one relationship with God is required, to encounter the "Absolute Paradox," defined as an immutable being entering into and transforming human history. Kierkegaard's dim view of a systematic Christian theology includes a preoccupation with theological exposition that distracts from the essential task of achieving a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Alternatively, Paul Tillich's theology is based on a triadic relationship of being, nonbeing and Being-Itself (God), a doctrine of symbols, and a reinterpretation of the Incarnation. It correlates a culture's questions and concerns with the Christian message to certain criteria of acceptability that, to Tillich, must satisfy the "Protestant Principle," stipulating that a theological system both restates the present-time Christian message and acknowledges that this restatement cannot be the definitive, ultimate expression of that message. Theology on Trial presents and assesses whether, and to what degree, Tillich's theology satisfies his own criteria of acceptability. An acceptable theology must be logically consistent and free of equivocation. The concluding section of the book examines the views of each author from the standpoint of the other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567667090

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T&T Clark Companion to the Theology of Kierkegaard by Anonim Pdf

This companion explores Søren Kierkegaard's theological importance, offering a comprehensive reading of his work through a distinctly theological lens, including interpretative concerns, his approach to specific doctrines, and theological trajectories for thinking beyond his work. Beginning with essays on key interpretative factors involved in approaching Kierkegaard's complex corpus, there are also historical accounts of his theological development, followed by – for the first time in a single volume – focused expositions of Kierkegaard's approach to particular doctrinal themes, from those oft-discussed in his work (e.g. Christology) to those more understated (e.g. Pneumatology). The book concludes with theological trajectories for Kierkegaard's thought in the twenty-first century. This volume helps not only to situate Kierkegaard's theology more firmly on the map, but to situate Kierkegaard more firmly on the theological map, as one who has much to offer both the form and content of the theological task.

Author : Simon D Podmore
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227902103

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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 : Paul R. Sponheim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000131072

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Kierkegaard on Christ and Christian Coherence by Paul R. Sponheim Pdf

Author : Timothy Polk
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865545391

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The Biblical Kierkegaard by Timothy Polk Pdf

Placing Kierkegaard firmly within the Augustinian tradition of reading Scripture according to the Rules of faith and love, Polk brings Kierkegaard's biblical hermeneutics into conversation with current postliberal narrative theology, speech-act theory, canon-contextual criticism, reader-response criticism, feminist theology, and political theology.