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Repeating Abraham

Posted in Abraham, John Cassian, Søren Kierkegaard on September 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »

In his Conferences, John Cassian relates the story of a monk who failed in his discretion. This monk, who remains unnamed, is tempted to repeat the sacrifice of Abraham, who was called to give up his only son Isaac: Why also should I speak of one (whose name we had rather not mention as he [...]

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The Dissertation

Posted in Academia, Maurice Blondel, Søren Kierkegaard on August 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »

It’s finished! That means at least two things: this blog will be up and running once again and, if you so desire, you can read the dissertation here (PDF).

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Classic Kierkegaard

Posted in Søren Kierkegaard on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

He has the most wonderful opening lines: Many may find the form of this “exposition” strange; it may seem to them too rigorous to be upbuilding and too upbuilding to be rigorously scholarly. Any guesses which work this is? No peeking!

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Barth’s Romans Commentary

Posted in Karl Barth, Romans, Søren Kierkegaard on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I’m finally reading the famous commentary on Romans. Of course, there are all the sharpened descriptions of contradiction between God and humanity, stunning and blunt: “In the Resurrection the new world of the Holy Spirit touches the old world of the flesh, but touches it as a tangent touches a circle, that is, without touching [...]

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Kierkegaard on Venerable Father Abraham

Posted in Søren Kierkegaard on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To my mind, the most stunning paragraph ever written (outside Scripture): Venerable Father Abraham! When you went home from Mount Moriah, you did not need a eulogy to comfort you for what was lost, for you gained everything and kept Isaac—was it not so? The Lord did not take him away from you again, but you sat [...]

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Von Balthasar and the Reformation

Posted in Catholicism, Ecumenism, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard, Spiritual Theology on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Hans Urs von Balthasar, among the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century, unfolds in the early part of his trilogy a theology of Christian experience. Here the saints play a very interesting role as those who exemplify the Christian life which simply is the conformity to Christ’s form (von Balthasar’s first volume is [...]

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Kierkegaard on Constructing the Self

Posted in Søren Kierkegaard, Subjectivity on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In order to understand the following quote from philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, a bit of background on terminology is required. This passage comes from a book about despair, which, for Kierkegaard, arises out of a wrong relation of the self to itself and also to God, the eternal. The self—my self, myself—is a synthesis or unity [...]

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