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Kierkegaard and the Self Before God

Author : Simon D. Podmore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222826
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Self Before God written by Simon D. Podmore and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon D. Podmore claims that becoming a self before God is both a divine gift and an anxious obligation. Before we can know God, or ourselves, we must come to a moment of recognition. How this comes to be, as well as the terms of such acknowledgment, are worked out in Podmore's powerful new reading of Kierkegaard. As he gives full consideration to Kierkegaard's writings, Podmore explores themes such as despair, anxiety, melancholy, and spiritual trial, and how they are broken by the triumph of faith, forgiveness, and the love of God. He confronts the abyss between the self and the divine in order to understand how we can come to know ourselves in relation to a God who is apparently so wholly Other.

Kierkegaard and Spirituality

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467456640
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Kierkegaard and Spirituality by : C. Stephen Evans

Download or read book Kierkegaard and Spirituality written by C. Stephen Evans and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Struggling with God

Author : Simon D Podmore
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227902114
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Struggling with God written by Simon D Podmore and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180830
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air written by Søren Kierkegaard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sickness Unto Death

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625585918
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Sickness Unto Death written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity; in short, it is a synthesis.

The Prayers of Kierkegaard

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226470573
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Prayers of Kierkegaard written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love

Author : John Lippitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110706791X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love by : John Lippitt

Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love written by John Lippitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of whether we should love ourselves - and if so how - has particular resonance within Christian thought and is an important yet underinvestigated theme in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. In Works of Love, Kierkegaard argues that the friendships and romantic relationships which we typically treasure most are often merely disguised forms of 'selfish' self-love. Yet in this nuanced and subtle account, John Lippitt shows that Kierkegaard also provides valuable resources for responding to the challenge of how we can love ourselves, as well as others. Lippitt relates what it means to love oneself properly to such topics as love of God and neighbour, friendship, romantic love, self-denial and self-sacrifice, trust, hope and forgiveness. The book engages in detail with Works of Love, related Kierkegaard texts and important recent studies, and also addresses a wealth of wider literature in ethics, moral psychology and philosophy of religion.

Existing Before God

Author : Paul R. Sponheim
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506405649
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Existing Before God written by Paul R. Sponheim and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the Danish theologian, philosopher, and preacher, in his last years issued a blistering attack on the established Christianity of the nineteenth century. That challenge was also a summons to an authentic life of Christian faith. With intensity and acumen, Kierkegaard diagnosed the spiritual and intellectual ills of modernity and Christendom and offered a constructive “upbuilding” for active, faithful Christian existence. One of Kierkegaard’s key texts, The Sickness unto Death, outlines the problem of the human condition—sin/despair—and draws the reader into the heart of the Christian faith: the infinite qualitative difference between God and creatures and the paradox of the God-man who came to bring abundant life in the form of authentic selfhood “grounded transparently” in the Creator. In this volume, Paul R. Sponheim, introduces readers to Kierkegaard, unfolds this pivotal text and its connections to Kierkegaard’s theological and ethical worldview, and traces the reception and significance of this text in the modern and contemporary theological tradition. In this, Existing Before God continues the contribution of the Mapping the Tradition series in providing compact yet salient maps of the theological, historical, social, and contextual impact of the most important minds and texts of Christian history.

How To Read Kierkegaard

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783780649
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book How To Read Kierkegaard written by John D. Caputo and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard

Author : Mark Bernier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198747888
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Task of Hope in Kierkegaard written by Mark Bernier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the concept of hope in the work of Kierkegaard, a subject whose significance has not been given enough scholarly attention, and which should not be treated simply by reference to other philosophical ideas, or merely as the antithesis of despair. An essential role of faith is to secure the ground for hope, and in this way faith secures the ground for the self. In short, authentic hope is not merely a fringe element, but is essential to Kierkegaard's project of the self.

How Should a Person Be?

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429943483
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book How Should a Person Be? written by Sheila Heti and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times "Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."—David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review "Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."—San Francisco Chronicle Named a Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Flavorpill, The New Republic, The New York Observer, The Huffington Post A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum) Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Author : Sharon Krishek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139479911
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard on Faith and Love written by Sharon Krishek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith. Sharon Krishek argues that for Kierkegaard the connection between love and faith is far from being merely illustrative. Rather, love and faith have a common structure, and are involved with one another in a way that makes it impossible to love well without faith. Remarkably, this applies to romantic love no less than to neighbourly love. Krishek's original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling shows that preferential love, and in particular romantic love, plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed.

The Naked Self

Author : Patrick Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198732732
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Naked Self written by Patrick Stokes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Stokes explores Kierkegaard's understanding of selfhood by situating his work in relation to central problems in contemporary philosophy of personal identity. By bringing his thought into dialogue with major living and recent philosophers, Stokes reveals the lasting contribution that Kierkegaard made to the study of self and identity.

Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber

Author : Shmuel Hugo Bergman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496457
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber by : Shmuel Hugo Bergman

Download or read book Dialogical Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber written by Shmuel Hugo Bergman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces American readers to a philosophical and spiritual exemplar of dialogue. The author presents a way of thinking about ourselves, the world, and our relationship to God that is neither dualistic nor monistic. The thinkers presented in this book focus on a radical departure from objectivism and subjectivism. Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Herman Cohen, Ferdinand Ebner, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, and Martin Buber were all trying to find a way to allow a transaction between self, the world, and God without foregoing either individuality or the experience of merging. Some of the issues covered in the book include the origins of philosophy; objective versus existential truth; irony, truth, and faith; ethics versus aesthetics; ethics versus religion; thought and language; love of God and neighbor; I-Thou and I-It in Nature, with people, and with God; and redemption in the world.

Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467442291
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith written by Merold Westphal and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Kierkegaard

Author : Mark A. Tietjen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830840974
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard written by Mark A. Tietjen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission—reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. Mark Tietjen thinks that Kierkegaard's critique of his contemporaries strikes close to home today. Through an examination of core Christian doctrines, he helps us hear Kierkegaard's missionary message to a church that often fails to follow Christ with purity of heart.

Kierkegaard's Writings, XXI, Volume 21

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087436X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Writings, XXI, Volume 21 written by Søren Kierkegaard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Self-Examination and its companion piece Judge for Yourself! are the culmination of Søren Kierkegaard's "second authorship," which followed his Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Among the simplest and most readily comprehended of Kierkegaard's books, the two works are part of the signed direct communications, as distinguished from his earlier pseudonymous writings. The lucidity and pithiness, and the earnestness and power, of For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! are enhanced when, as Kierkegaard requested, they are read aloud. They contain the well-known passages on Socrates' defense speech, how to read, the lover's letter, the royal coachman and the carriage team, and the painter's relation to his painting. The aim of awakening and inward deepening is signaled by the opening section on Socrates in For Self-Examination and is pursued in the context of the relations of Christian ideality, grace, and response. The secondary aim, a critique of the established order, links the works to the final polemical writings that appear later after a four-year period of silence.