Philosophy : Religious

This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Søren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book to examine the role of Socrates in this body of writings, illuminating the significance of Socrates for Kierkegaard's thought in general. more...

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Kierkegaard Studies. Yearbook 2008 is devoted entirely to Kierkegaard's early two-part work Either/Or (1843) that made the young Danish theologian, philosopher and man of letter famous virtually overnight, and the reception and effects of which have been linked with his name world-wide up to the present day. Either/Or rightly appears as an overwhelming study heralding the present age of the 20th/21st centuries. Section 1 contains the collected papers from the international research seminar of the Kierkegaard Research Centre held in Copenhagen in August 2007. Section 2 contains studies on the history of the work's reception, in this case covering a wide field (from Scandinavia to China), which once again bear impressive testimony to the stature and effect of Kierkegaard's early work: Either/Or -Literature in its global effect. more...

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Steadfastly resisting established practice in academic writing, Kierkegaard emphasizes the indispensability of "indirect communication" where religious truth is concerned. Here, the author draws on the thinking of Wittgenstein to discuss this idea. more...

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God is said to be Spirit, but the language of spirit is ignored in contemporary philosophy of religion. As well as exploring the notion of spirit in Hegel, Romanticism and Kierkegaard, participants explore the view that God is a spirit without a body, and the relations between 'spirit' and 'truth'. JAMES KELLENBERGER is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA ANSELM MIN is Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, USA SCHUBERT M. OGDEN is Professor Emeritus at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA and Marty Center Visiting Senior Scholar in Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA PATRICK SHERRY is Professor in Philosophical Theology at the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, UK MEROLD WESTPHAL is Lecturer in Philosophy at Fordham University, USA more...

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These twenty stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith, provide a charming account of the genesis of Hasidism. This is an ideal introduction to Hasidic religion, and to Buber's influential philosophy of love and human understanding. more...

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