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Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker

David J Gouwens author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Feb '96

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A concise and critical overview of Kierkegaard's religious and theological thinking as a whole.

Making innovative use of his religious and philosophical works, Gouwens explores Kierkegaard's religious and theological thought, focusing on human nature and Christianity. He discusses Kierkegaard's main concerns as a religious thinker, and his treatment of religion using the dialectic of 'becoming Christian'.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.

'... it is now the single most useful book available in English on Kierkegaard as a religious or theological thinker ... this is a remarkable book about an even more remarkable figure, and cannot be recommended highly enough.' Reviews in Religion and Theology

ISBN: 9780521460316

Dimensions: 237mm x 154mm x 22mm

Weight: 494g

268 pages