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Kierkegaard’s Theological Sociology

Author : Paul Tyson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532648278
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard’s Theological Sociology written by Paul Tyson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard developed a distinctive type of sociology in the 1840s--a theological sociology. Looking at society through the lens of analysis categories such as worship, sin, and faith, Kierkegaard developed a profoundly insightful way of understanding how, for example, the modern mass media works. He gets right inside the urban world of Golden Age Denmark, and its religion, and analyses "the present age" of consumption, comfort, competition, distraction, and image-construction with astonishing depth. To Kierkegaard worship centers all individuals and all societies; hence his sociology is doxological. This book argues that we also live in the present age Kierkegaard described, and our way of life can be understood much better through Kierkegaard's lens than through the methodologically materialist categories of classical sociology. As social theory itself has moved beyond classical sociology, the social sciences are increasingly open to post-methodologically-atheist approaches to understanding what it means to be human beings living in social contexts. The time is right to recover the theological resources of Christian faith in understanding the social world we live in. The time has come to pick up where Kierkegaard left off, and to start working towards a prophetic doxological sociology for our times.

Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy

Author : Anoop Gupta
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 077661861X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy written by Anoop Gupta and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His study moves theories of the self from theology toward sociology, from a God-relationship to a social one, and illustrates how a loss in theological underpinnings partly contributes to the rise in the popularity of cultural relativism. By drawing on Kierkegaard's writings, Gupta develops a metaphysical account of the self that provides an alternative to the idea that there is no such thing as human nature. Keywords: Kierkegaard; Philosophy; Theory of self; Metaphysics; Theology; Sociology

Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant theology

Author : Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409444794
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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

Download or read book Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant theology written by Jon Bartley Stewart and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory)

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131765109X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory) by : Werner Stark

Download or read book Social Theory and Christian Thought (RLE Social Theory) written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all the great religious thinkers of the past have developed a social as well as theological doctrine, but their sociology was as a rule merely implicit in their work or at best half formulated so that careful study and analysis is needed to bring it out. This is the task which Dr. Stark has set himself in the present essays. He has searched the writings of St. Augustine, Paschal, Newman and Kierkegaard for the sociological ideas they contain and shows that their social philosophies were varied, profound, fascinating and surprisingly definite. Dr. Stark seeks the theological conceptions present in, and basic to, the teachings of some outstanding secular sociologists, economists and philosophers, such as Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Marx, the Darwinians, Bergson Scheler and Meinecke and proves that their systems were built around a religious centre even though they themselves were at times unaware of it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Author : Todd Speidell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666709107
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Soren Kierkegaard written by Todd Speidell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”).

Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875116
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences by : Jon Stewart

Download or read book Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard has long been known as a philosopher and theologian, but his contributions to psychology, anthropology and sociology have also made an important impact on these fields. In many of the works of his complex authorship, Kierkegaard presents his intriguing and unique vision of the nature and mental life of human beings individually and collectively. The articles featured in the present volume explore the reception of Kierkegaard's thought in the social sciences. Of these fields Kierkegaard is perhaps best known in psychology, where The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death have been the two most influential texts. With regard to the field of sociology, social criticism, or social theory, Kierkegaard's Literary Review of Two Ages has also been regarded as offering valuable insights about some important dynamics of modern society..

Kierkegaard and Political Theology

Author : Roberto Sirvent
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498224822
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Kierkegaard and Political Theology by : Roberto Sirvent

Download or read book Kierkegaard and Political Theology written by Roberto Sirvent and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of Kierkegaard’s political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings. Exploring Kierkegaard’s relevancy for this political-theological moment, this volume offers trans-disciplinary and multi-religious perspectives on Kierkegaard studies and political theology. Privileging contemporary philosophical and political-theological work that is based on Kierkegaard, this volume is an indispensable resource for Kierkegaard scholars, theologians, philosophers of religion, ethicists, and critical researchers in religion looking to make sense of current debates in the field. While this volume shows that Kierkegaard’s theological legacy is a thoroughly political one, we are left with a series of open questions as to what a Kierkegaardian interjection into contemporary political theology might look like. And so, like Kierkegaard’s writings, this collection of essays is an argument with itself, and as such, will leave readers both edified and scratching their heads—for all the right reasons.

Theology in a Social Context

Author : Professor Robin Gill
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409481840
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Theology in a Social Context written by Professor Robin Gill and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 30 years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the dialogue between theologians and sociologists. In his new trilogy on Sociological Theology, Robin Gill makes a renewed contribution to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology, with the three volumes covering: Theology in a Social Context; Theology Shaped by Society; Society Shaped by Theology. Theology in a Social Context argues that a sociological perspective, properly understood, can make an important contribution to theology. Part I looks carefully at various objections raised by both theologians and sociologists, maintaining instead that a proper understanding of social context is a prerequisite for effective theology. Part II suggests that a sociological perspective offers crucial insights into resurgent forms of fundamentalism. Part III offers a fresh account of social context in the modern world, once thought by sociologists and theologians alike to consist simply of increasing secularization.

Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker

Author : David J. Gouwens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521555517
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker by : David J. Gouwens

Download or read book Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker written by David J. Gouwens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard

Author : John Lippitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199601305
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard written by John Lippitt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard brings together an outstanding selection of contemporary specialists and uniquely combines work on the background and context of Kierkegaard's writings, exposition of his key ideas, and a survey of his influence and heritage.

Political Theology of Kierkegaard

Author : Saitya Brata Das
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474474152
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Political Theology of Kierkegaard written by Saitya Brata Das and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique, not only of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity but also the political theology of Carl Schmitt, that seeks to legitimise the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation. Relating Kierkegaard's notion of 'Christianity without Christendom' to the Schellingian eschatological critique of sovereignty, he shows how Schelling's insistence on the eschatological difference between religion and politics is transformed and further intensified in Kierkegaard's critique of historical reason. Such an exception without sovereignty, Das argues, is the very task of our contemporary time.

Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044780
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society written by Merold Westphal and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Volume 10, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875442
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Volume 10, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology by : Jon Stewart

Download or read book Volume 10, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard has always enjoyed a rich reception in the fields of theology and religious studies. This reception might seem obvious given that he is one of the most important Christian writers of the nineteenth century, but Kierkegaard was by no means a straightforward theologian in any traditional sense. He had no enduring interest in some of the main fields of theology such as church history or biblical studies, and he was strikingly silent on many key Christian dogmas. Moreover, he harbored a degree of animosity towards the university theologians and churchmen of his own day. Despite this, he has been a source of inspiration for numerous religious writers from different denominations and traditions. Tome I is dedicated to the reception of Kierkegaard among German Protestant theologians and religious thinkers. The writings of some of these figures turned out to be instrumental for Kierkegaard's breakthrough internationally shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Leading figures of the movement of 'dialectical theology' such as Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann spawned a steadily growing awareness of and interest in Kierkegaard's thought among generations of German theology students. Emanuel Hirsch was greatly influenced by Kierkegaard and proved instrumental in disseminating his thought by producing the first complete German edition of Kierkegaard's published works. Both Barth and Hirsch established unique ways of reading and appropriating Kierkegaard, which to a certain degree determined the direction and course of Kierkegaard studies right up to our own times.

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

Author : Paul L. Holmer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621894347
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book On Kierkegaard and the Truth written by Paul L. Holmer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a "crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on "truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth" empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and philosophy. This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers.

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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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.

Sören Kierkegaard

Author : Elmer H. Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Sören Kierkegaard written by Elmer H. Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology Shaped by Society

Author : Professor Robin Gill
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140948372X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Theology Shaped by Society written by Professor Robin Gill and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology Shaped by Society argues that the sociology of knowledge can make an important contribution to theology. Part I argues that theology can be seen as a 'socially constructed reality' that is sometimes dangerously related to power but, at other times, that is a positively engaged discipline taking the risk of being shaped by particular societies and cultures. From this second perspective theology is seen properly as a thoroughly relational discipline, as itself a social system. Part II examines mission shaped by society and maps this in practical terms by examining recent, and surprising, religious trends in York. Part III shows how music can imaginatively shape theology and reveal unexpected resonances. Over the last 30 years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the dialogue between theologians and sociologists. In his new trilogy on Sociological Theology, Robin Gill makes a renewed contribution to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology, with the three volumes covering: Theology in a Social Context; Theology Shaped by Society; and Society Shaped by Theology.