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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465534003321

Autore

Walsh Sylvia <1937->

Titolo

Kierkegaard [[electronic resource] ] : thinking Christianly in an existential mode / / Sylvia Walsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-19-920836-0

9786611998653

1-281-99865-6

0-19-154904-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Christian theology in context

Disciplina

198/.9

Soggetti

Christianity and existentialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. That Single Individual; 2. Christianity is an Existence-Communication; 3. Venturing a Relation to God; 4. Our Human Condition: Anxiety, Sin, Despair, and Becoming a Self before God; 5. Christ as Absolute Paradox, Redeemer, and Prototype; 6. The Christian Life of Faith, Hope, and Love; 7. Religion, Culture, and Society; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Kierkegaard was a Christian thinker perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Sylvia Walsh explores his understanding of Christianity and the existential mode of thinking theologically appropriate to it in the context of the intellectual, cultural, and socio-political milieu of his time. - ;S--oslash--;ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was first and foremost a Christian thinker who is perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Not since Luther has there been a Protestant thinker who h