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dc.contributor.authorTorrance, Andrew Bartholomew
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-17T23:32:02Z
dc.date.available2017-09-17T23:32:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.identifier226681061
dc.identifierf1fe2f05-ea23-48a3-b098-5d4070821f32
dc.identifier84954373412
dc.identifier000367225100004
dc.identifier.citationTorrance , A B 2016 , ' Kierkegaard on the Christian response to the God who establishes kinship with us in time ' , Modern Theology , vol. 32 , no. 1 , pp. 60-83 . https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12211en
dc.identifier.issn0266-7177
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5604-8247/work/61133136
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11679
dc.description.abstractWhen reading through certain areas of Kierkegaard’s writings, there is room to misinterpret his vision of Christianity as being grounded solely in a person’s subjective commitment to her own idea of what Christianity is. In large part, this has contributed to the perception of Kierkegaard as an existentialist who disregards the objective reality of Christianity. In this essay, I contend that Kierkegaard understands the Christian faith as being grounded in a human response to the (mind-independent) reality of the living God who personally involves himself with persons, in history, and does so over against independent or predetermined human ideas of God. To do so, I begin with a close reading of Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, in which I focus on the ways that Kierkegaard’s pseudonym, Johannes Climacus, distinguishes Christianity from immanent forms of religiousness. Following a detailed exposition of Climacus’ argument, I then consider, albeit very briefly, two ways in which Kierkegaard employed this position in his own authorship, looking specifically at his understanding of sin-consciousness and repentance.
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dc.format.extent336242
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofModern Theologyen
dc.subjectBR Christianityen
dc.subjectBT Doctrinal Theologyen
dc.subject.lccBRen
dc.subject.lccBTen
dc.titleKierkegaard on the Christian response to the God who establishes kinship with us in timeen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/moth.12211
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-09-17


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