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Author | : Merold Westphal |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1467442291 |
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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 | : F. Russell Sullivan |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2009-11-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0761849351 |
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In this work, Sullivan analyzes the relationship between faith and reason in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Kierkegaard is widely considered to be an irrationalist. Sullivan argues that he views faith as reasonable in a distinct way that must be uncovered. In some of his pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard speaks of the movement of faith as paradoxical and absurd. There is evidence from his non-pseudonymous works that Kierkgaard does not consider faith irrational. He denigrates reason only in that he wishes to impress upon nominal Christians (who look upon faith only as a body of doctrine) that more and more understanding of the tenets of faith can never yield logical certainty. The doctrines of faith can be argued pro and contra. For Kierkgaard, faith in this context is illogical, but not irrational. In his religious works, Kierkgaard's notion of reason is inextricably tied in with that of his recalcitrance of the will. Reason (logic and speculative thought) attests to its own limits in regard to doctrinal faith, but it also can point to that which is a reasonable step, even when logic alone is of no avail. For Kierkgaard, subjectivity is a necessary - but not sufficient - condition of religious faith. In actuality, Kierkgaard is not presenting an epistemological theory at all, but through his pseudonymous authors' emphasis upon subjectivity he hopes that nominal Christians will begin to experience the need for Christ. Kierkgaard believes that only if inauthentic Christians realize that the religious option cannot be decided by logical inquiry into the doctrines of faith, and then experience their own inauthenticity and the futility of any unaided willful efforts to remedy it, will the act of faith in Christ as a viable alternative appear as reasonable.
Author | : C. Stephen Evans |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press (Ips) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1992-11-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.
Author | : C. Stephen Evans |
Publisher | : Baylor University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Ethics, Modern |
ISBN | : 193279235X |
Download Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Jeffrey Hanson |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-01-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253025028 |
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“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 | : Robert Campbell Roberts |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780865542280 |
Download Faith, Reason, and History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Clare Carlisle |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374721696 |
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Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence—how to be a human being in the world?—while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. Much of his creativity sprang from his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, a relationship which remained decisive for the rest of his life. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom—as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.
Author | : Richard Phillip McCombs |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-03-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253006473 |
Download The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion—the relation between faith and reason.
Author | : Steve Wilkens |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830840400 |
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Steve Wilkens edits a debate between three different understandings of the relationship between faith and reason, between theology and philosophy. The three views include: Faith and Philosophy in Tension, Faith Seeking Understanding and the Thomistic Synthesis. This introduction to a timeless quandary is an essential resource for students.
Author | : C. Stephen Evans |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802845559 |
Download Faith Beyond Reason Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume in the Reason & Religion series provides an explanation and defense of a view of faith and reason found in the writings of Soren Kierkegaard and others that is often called "fideism", a belief in faith beyond reason.