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Climacus and Kierkegaard on the Outward Relationship with God
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Andrew B. Torrance
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June 21, 2014
Abstract
Overshadowed by a superficial reading of his pseudonym, Johannes Climacus’ statement “subjectivity is truth,” Søren Kierkegaard has come to be perceived in the theological world as overly individualistic and anthropocentric in his thinking. This has contributed to the perception that, for Kierkegaard, it is the individual Christian who is in charge of her Christian faith. In this essay, I endeavor to challenge this perception through an analysis of Climacus and Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the outward nature of the God-relationship
Published Online: 2014-6-21
Published in Print: 2014-6-1
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Masthead
- Section 1: Kierkegaardian Philosophical Concepts: Self-Understanding and Existence
- “Ne Quid Nimis.” Kierkegaard and the Virtue of Temperance
- Going No Further: Toward an Interpretation of “Problema III” in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling
- The Aporia of Decision: Revisiting the Question of Decision in Kierkegaard
- Kierkegaard in Nature: The Fragility of Existing with Naturalism
- Section 2: Kierkegaardian Religious Concepts: Reason, Faith, Imitation
- Kierkegaard’s Aesthetics and the Aesthetic of Imitation
- Søren Kierkegaard’s Historical Jesus as the Christ of Faith
- Faith in a Rational Age: A Dialogue with Climacus
- Climacus and Kierkegaard on the Outward Relationship with God
- Section 3: Rediscovering Kierkegaard’s Sources
- Shaftesbury—An Important Forgotten Indirect Source of Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Freedom and the Temporality of Despair
- “A Swarm of Laughter!” On Kierkegaard’s Conception of Enthusiasm and Its Comedic Remedy, an Enlightenment Inheritance
- Section 4: 20th Century Responses to Kierkegaard
- Ways of Dying: The Double Death in Kierkegaard and Blanchot
- Das Problem des religiösen Akosmismus in der Kierkegaard-Rezeption von Karl Jaspers
- Kierkegaard, Hannah Arendt and the Advent of the “Hollow Men” or towards a Kierkegaardian Reading of Eichmann in Jerusalem
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- Abbreviations
