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| Nov 6 @ 11:10 AM |
When Existentialism Meets Christianity
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yashaenka
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/11301/kierkegaards_philosophy_of_faith.html?cat=9
For centuries philosopher and theologians have debated the existence of God and the legitimacy of religion, trying to justify faith through logic. Soren Kierkegaard believed in the Christian concept of God and wrote extensively on Christianity, but did not try to rationally explain his religion. He was not an apologist, or if he was, his apologetics were certainly unconventional; Kierkegaard not only acknowledged the unbeliever’s claims that Christianity is a paradox, irrational and completely improvable, he accepted these claims and even argued for them! “What now is absurd? The absurd is,” Kierkegaard proclaims, “that the eternal truth has come into being in time, that God has come into being, has been born, has grown up, and so forth, has come into being precisely like any other individual human being, quite indistinguishable from any other individuals (Anderson 52-53).” Logically this makes no amount of sense whatsoever. How could it? But Kierkegaard says that religion is not something we can make sense of in a conventional sense. It is quite literally irrational, and the main problem with religion has been the tendency for people to change it into a set of rules and doctrines, in other words trying to intellectualize something that simply cannot be intellectualized; “Faith constitutes a sphere all by itself and every misunderstanding of Christianity may at once be recognized by its transforming it into a doctrine, transferring it to the sphere of the intellectual. (Anderson 51 – 52).”
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