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On Soren Kierkegaard (Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology)

By Edward F. Mooney

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0754658228, 9780754658221, 9780754687351
Open Library ID
OL10852973M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1485044 bytes)
Pages
276\279
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th-century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, or as a moral psychologist, and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, gives a close reading of several central texts, and traces "The Ethical Sublime" as a recurrent theme. He unfolds an affirmative relationship between philosophy and theology and the potentialities for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds, secular chauvinisms, and restrictive philosophies.

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