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Kierkegaard's concept of faith / Merold Westphal

By: Material type: TextSeries: Kierkegaard as a Christian thinkerPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2014]Description: x, 284 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802868060
  • 0802868061
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 234.23 23 WES
LOC classification:
  • BX4827.K5 W47 2014
Contents:
Part 1. Johannes de Silentio. Faith as the task of a lifetime -- Faith as trust in divine promises -- Faith as obedience to divine commands -- Interlude : three questions in medias res -- Faith as the teleological suspension of reason -- Faith as the highest passion -- Part 2. Johannes Climacus. Faith as the reception of revelation -- Faith as the happy passion that overcomes offense -- Faith as the passionate appropriation of an objective uncertainty -- Faith as a leap and a striving -- Faith as a striving pathos that goes against reason -- Part 3. Anti-Climacus. Faith as willing to be oneself : before God -- Faith as contemporaneity with Christ : without offense
Summary: In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker S©ıren 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.--Amazon.comSummary: In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker S©ıren 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.--Amazon.com
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Johannes de Silentio. Faith as the task of a lifetime -- Faith as trust in divine promises -- Faith as obedience to divine commands -- Interlude : three questions in medias res -- Faith as the teleological suspension of reason -- Faith as the highest passion -- Part 2. Johannes Climacus. Faith as the reception of revelation -- Faith as the happy passion that overcomes offense -- Faith as the passionate appropriation of an objective uncertainty -- Faith as a leap and a striving -- Faith as a striving pathos that goes against reason -- Part 3. Anti-Climacus. Faith as willing to be oneself : before God -- Faith as contemporaneity with Christ : without offense

In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker S©ıren 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.--Amazon.com

In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker S©ıren 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.--Amazon.com

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