Kierkegaard : thinking Christianly in an existential mode / Sylvia Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Sylvia, 1937-

Series:

Christian theology in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Christianity and existentialism.

Physical Description:

xi, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]

Summary:

The Christian Theology in Context series provides students and general readers, as well as academics, with a collection of well researched yet accessible books on the most important theologians and theological movements of the Christian church from the apostolic period to the present day. The volumes are unique in setting theological thought in its full social, historical, and political context. Each shows the close relationship between knowledge and social practice, rationality and cultural location.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was first and foremost a Christian thinker best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Not since Luther has there been a Protestant thinker who has so uncompromisingly sought to define and present Christianity in its utmost integrity. Characterizing Christianity as an `existence-communication' rather than a doctrine, Kierkegaard sought to portray what it means to be a Christian in the strictest sense in the interest of reintroducing authentic Christianity as an existential possibility for every individual in the modern age.

Contents:

1 That Single Individual 1

2 Christianity is an Existence-Communication 26

3 Venturing a Relation to God 51

4 Our Human Condition: Anxiety, Sin, Despair, and Becoming a Self before God 80

5 Christ as Absolute Paradox, Redeemer, and Prototype 111

6 The Christian Life of Faith, Hope, and Love 145

7 Religion, Culture, and Society 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-223) and index.

ISBN:

9780199208364

0199208360

9780199208357

0199208352

OCLC:

263408742