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nashscott's review against another edition
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4.0
Absolutely beautiful life. Kierkagaard expressed the feelings of being human into a world that needed it, while pointing towards an eternity that was terrifying and beautiful at the same time.
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5.0
Best book “on” Kierkegaard I’ve read. Probably the best biography of a philosopher that I’ve read. Kierkegaard comes to fully fleshed life in these pages. The sorrows that drive him are well understood.
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“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther
The paradox central to Kierkegaard's faith is rooted in the parable of Abraham. The individual abiding faith in Christian faith is so unwavering that Abraham
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Kierkegaard and the historians
Is Climacus consistent?
Given that the historical presence of God in the form of a servant is regarded by Climacus as decisive for faith, and if not we return to the Socratic, is Climacus' apparent indifference to historical detail coherent? There appears to be a basic incompatibility between the conviction that the moment in time is decisive for faith and the equally strongly maintained conviction that any attempt to authenticate that moment through historical research is illegitimate. Stephen Evans, who is sensitive to the charge of inconsistency in the Climackean position, comments, Both traditional Christians as well as those more liberal Christians engaged in the quest for the historical Jesus would argue that what must go is the cavalier dismissal of historical evidence. These groups have been suspicious of Kierkegaard for what they perceive as his irrationalism. Many contemporary theologians, on the other hand, convinced that making faith
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