1st Edition
The Terrible Crystal Studies in Kierkegaard and Modern Christianity
By Melville Chaning-Pearce
Copyright 1940
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
Consisting of studies in Christian thought in relation to catastrophe, this book particularly looks at the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth. When it was first published in 1940 this important investigation of ‘existential reality’ presented the view that the climate of crisis and catastrophe is also the essential climate of real religion. It addressed questions of the time surrounding... Read more
Prologue 1. Denmark’s Dead Men 2. The Theology of Crisis 3. The Theology of Eclipse 4. Transcendence 5. Barth and Beyond 6. Guidance and Magic 7. Facilis Descendus Averni 8. Beyond the Tragic Climax 9. The Gentile and the Jew. Epilogue
Biography
M. Chaning-Pearce
