Kierkegaard S Kenotic Christology

Author : David R. Law
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
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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 : Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 254 pages
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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 : Murray Rae
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198269404

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Kierkegaard's Vision of the Incarnation by Murray Rae Pdf

Challenging widely followed theological epistemologies, Rae develops a new interpretation of Kierkegaard, and concludes that the account of Christian conversion given by Climacus is a faithful elucidation of the concept of metanoia.

Author : Thomas J. Millay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110989465

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The Abased Christ by Thomas J. Millay Pdf

The Abased Christ is the first monograph to be devoted exclusively to Søren Kierkegaard’s Christological masterpiece, Practice in Christianity. Alongside an argument for a new translation of the work’s title, it offers detailed textual commentary on a series of themes in Practice in Christianity, such as the person of Christ, contemporaneity, imitation, and Kierkegaard’s philosophy of history. Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of Practice in Christianity, presents to his readers a uniquely challenging understanding of who Christ is and what it means to follow him. The Christ of Anti-Climacus is not the glorious Christ who abides with the Father in heaven, but the abased Christ who is poor, marginal, offensive, and persecuted. Throughout Practice in Christianity, we are called not only to perceive the abased Christ, but to follow after him. The Abased Christ aims to enrich historical theologians’ appreciation of Kierkegaard’s Christology. However, it concludes by grappling with questions of power, agency, and sacrifice which have been at the forefront of contemporary theology in the 20th and 21st centuries, thereby suggesting how we might make sense of Kierkegaard’s Christology today.

Author : Todd Speidell,Greg Marcar,Andrew Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 439 pages
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Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400847037

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Kierkegaard's Writings, XX, Volume 20 by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes as his theme the requirement of Christian ideality in the context of divine grace. Addressing clergy and laity alike, Kierkegaard asserts the need for institutional and personal admission of the accommodation of Christianity to the culture and to the individual misuse of grace. As a corrective defense, the book is an attempt to find, ideally, a basis for the established order, which would involve the order's ability to acknowledge the Christian requirement, confess its own distance from it, and resort to grace for support in its continued existence. At the same time the book can be read as the beginning of Kierkegaard's attack on Christendom. Because of the high ideality of the contents and in order to prevent the misunderstanding that he himself represented that ideality, Kierkegaard writes under a new pseudonym, Anti-Climacus.

Author : Paul R. Sponheim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000131072

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Robert L. Perkins
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865549303

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Practice in Christianity by Robert L. Perkins Pdf

"Practice in Christianity is the second volume in what could be called the "collected Works" of "Anti-Climacus," Kierkegaard's new pseudonym. Anti-Climacus's first volume, The Sickness Unto Death, appeared just a year earlier in 1849. The use of a pseudonym is consistent with Kierkegaard's usual practice when presenting an idealized statement of his subject, be it sexual seduction or Christian theology. Anti-Climacus argues the conceptual content of Christianity against the "leading thought of the times" and also against the ethical and social import of the comforts and consolations of bourgeois culture and religion which he called "Christendom." In his own mind at least, Kierkegaards presents Christianity as it must be thought and lived if it is to be authentic. The Sickness unto Death and Practice in Christianity can be and are read quite independently, but jointly they provide the basis of Kierkegaard's devastating critique of a secularized, culturally homogenized, and tame Christianity. The authors of the studies in this present volume, Merold Westphal, Paul R. Sponheim, Murray A. Rae, Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, Sylvia Walsh, David D. Possen, Andrew J. Burgess, Christian Fink Tolstrup, Robert L. Perkins, and Wanda Warren Berry, raise a wide spectrum of issues regarding Practice in Christianity, its theology, its moral and religious psychology, and its cultural, social, and political world" --

Author : Thomas J. Millay
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110999714

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The Abased Christ by Thomas J. Millay Pdf

The Abased Christ is the first monograph to be devoted exclusively to Søren Kierkegaard's Christological masterpiece, Practice in Christianity. Alongside an argument for a new translation of the work's title, it offers detailed textual commentary on a series of themes in Practice in Christianity, such as the person of Christ, contemporaneity, imitation, and Kierkegaard's philosophy of history. Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of Practice in Christianity, presents to his readers a uniquely challenging understanding of who Christ is and what it means to follow him. The Christ of Anti-Climacus is not the glorious Christ who abides with the Father in heaven, but the abased Christ who is poor, marginal, offensive, and persecuted. Throughout Practice in Christianity, we are called not only to perceive the abased Christ, but to follow after him. The Abased Christ aims to enrich historical theologians' appreciation of Kierkegaard's Christology. However, it concludes by grappling with questions of power, agency, and sacrifice which have been at the forefront of contemporary theology in the 20th and 21st centuries, thereby suggesting how we might make sense of Kierkegaard's Christology today.

Author : R.I.Johnston
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781490848945

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The Triad of Solomon by R.I.Johnston Pdf

A stimulating treasury for those who would like to consider the relationship between the wisdom books of the Bible (chiefly Canticles, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) and the stages of their spheres of life, with the opportunity for profitable self-examination and improvement. The reader will journey through some of the highlights of the history of thought, covering such fascinating subjects on the way as how logic was twisted to make way for totalitarianism, how much truth is subjective and relates to the individualnever totally propositionalwhy people cannot be thought of as machines, how the theory of phenomenology casts light on the fall, and how living in the present is the best cure for the mentally wounded. All this is centered on one of the most misunderstood thinkers of all timeKierkegaard

Author : David J. Gouwens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521555515

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Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker by David J. Gouwens Pdf

Using Kierkegaard's later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher's religious and theological thought, focusing on human nature, Christ, and Christian discipleship. He helps the reader approach Kierkegaard as someone who both analysed religion and sought to evoke religious dispositions in his readers. Gouwens discusses Kierkegaard's main concerns as a religious and, specifically, Christian thinker, and his treatment of religion using the dialectic of 'becoming Christian', and counters the interpretation of his religious thought as privatistic and asocial. Gouwens appraises both the edifying discourses and the pseudonymous writings, including the particular problems posed by the latter. Between foundationalism and irrationalism, Kierkegaard's ideas are seen to anticipate the end of 'modernity', while standing at the centre of the Christian tradition.

Author : Vernard Eller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400877973

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Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship by Vernard Eller Pdf

Until recently most scholars have viewed Kierkegaard as a philosopher, a theologian, a psychologist, or a social thinker. Professor Eller sees Kierkegaard first and foremost as a religious thinker, and states that Kierkegaard himself felt his works could be best understood if they were read with this in mind. In order to show that Kierkegaard's religious thought is essentially that of classic Protestant sectarianism, Professor Eller has selected a typical sect, the Brethren, against which to measure Kierkegaard. He finds that, although the Brethren writers were not as sophisticated or learned as Kierkegaard, there were parallels in their writings on such topics as the importance of the individual and his relation to God, the role of reason in religion, and the problem of freedom of the will. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Simon D Podmore
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : George Pattison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018617

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Kierkegaard and the Theology of the Nineteenth Century by George Pattison Pdf

This book situates Kierkegaard in the nineteenth-century debates which influenced him and discusses his relevance to contemporary Christian theology.