La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
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Andrzej Słowikowski
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to read Kierkegaard’s upbuilding discourses centred around the theme “Every Good and Perfect Gift is From Above” in the perspective of hermeneutics of the gift presented by John Paul II in his book Man and Woman He Created Them. The authors analyze two completely different biblical themes-the Pope examines the issue of corporeality of the first people on the basis of Genesis, whereas Kierkegaard studies the creative power of God’s word in human existence, focusing on a passage from the Epistle of James. They show that the relationship between human beings and God, despite its individual character, may come into being only through the involvement of another person. The center of this meeting of two people in God is the already mentioned gift, understood here, in the highest sense, as a gift of love in which both parties are giving and receiving at the same time. The convergence of conclusions of both authors shows the anthropological coherence of the message of the Holy Scripture and gives rise to reflections on the essence of humanity.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
- Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
- A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
- Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
- Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
- On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
- Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
- Section 2: Source-Work Studies
- Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
- The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
- Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
- Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
- La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
- Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
- Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
- Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
- A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
- Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
- Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
- On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
- Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
- Section 2: Source-Work Studies
- Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
- The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
- Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
- Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
- Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
- Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
- La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
- Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
- Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
- Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
