Kierkegaard And The Paradox Of Religious Diversity

Author : George B. Connell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868045
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity written by George B. Connell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : George B. Connell
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467445185
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Paradox of Religious Diversity written by George B. Connell and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Herbert M. Garelick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401509034
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Christianity of Kierkegaard written by Herbert M. Garelick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498220940
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of Religion written by Jan-Olav Henriksen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Merigala Gabriel
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881461709
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity and Religious Truth in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard written by Merigala Gabriel and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daniel W. Conway
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415235891
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophy of religion : Kierkegaard contra contemporary Christendom written by Daniel W. Conway and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Campbell Roberts
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865542280
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Reason, and History written by Robert Campbell Roberts and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018617
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Theology of the Nineteenth Century written by George Pattison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates Kierkegaard in the nineteenth-century debates which influenced him and discusses his relevance to contemporary Christian theology.

Author : Peter Vardy
Publisher : Liguori Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard written by Peter Vardy and published by Liguori Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316853144
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and Religion written by Sylvia Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.