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- God, guilt, and death : an existential phenomenology of religion / by Westphal, Merold.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-298) and index.The art of understanding as an alternative approach in the philosophy of religion -- Ambivalence and the sacred -- Ambivalence, inertia, and resentment -- The existential meaning of guilt -- The existential meaning of death -- The believing soul's encounter with guilt and death -- Religion as means and as end -- Prayer and sacrifice as useless self-transcendence -- Guilt and death in exilic religion -- Guilt and death in mimetic religion -- Guilt and death in covenantal religion.In a valuable contribution to the philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal explains what it means to be religious. Examples from the writings of Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and Tolstoi illuminate the author's thesis that guilt and death are the central problems of human existence. A typology of exilic, mimetic, and covenantal religions distinguishes three different approaches to salvation from guilt and death.- Subjects: Religion; Guilt; Death;
- © 1987, ©1984., Indiana University Press,
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- Kierkegaard : a Christian missionary to Christians / by Tietjen, Mark A.,author.(CARDINAL)403621;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Kierkegaard: friend to Christians? -- Jesus Christ -- The human self -- Christian witness -- The life of Christian love.Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission. The church had become weak, flabby and inconsequential. Being a Christian was more a cultural heritage than a spiritual reality. His mission;reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. How could he break through to people who were members of the church and thought they were Christians already? Like an Old Testament prophet, Kierkegaard used a variety of pointed and dramatic ways to shake people from their slumber. He incisively diagnosed the spiritual ailments of his age and offered a fresh take on classic Christian teaching. Mark Tietjen thinks that Kierkegaard's critique of his contemporaries strikes close to home today. We also need to listen to one of the most insightful yet complex Christian thinkers of any era. Through an examination of core Christian doctrines -- the person of Jesus Christ, human nature, Christian witness and love --Tietjen helps us hear Kierkegaard's missionary message to a church that often fails to follow Christ with purity of heart.- Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.;
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