1st Edition

Volume 6, Tome II: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries - Theology

Edited By Jon Stewart Copyright 2007
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

This volume explores in detail Kierkegaard's various relations to his German contemporaries. Kierkegaard read German fluently and made extensive use of the writings of German-speaking authors. Apart from his contemporary Danish sources, the German sources were probably the most important in the development of his thought generally. This volume represents source-work research dedicated to tracing... Read more
Contents: Bruno Bauer: biblical narrative, freedom and anxiety, David James and Douglas Moggach; F.C. Baur: on the similarity and dissimilarity between Jesus and Socrates, David D. Possen; Bretschneider: the tangled legacy of rational supernaturalism, Lee C. Barrett; Daub: Kierkegaard's paradoxical appropriation of a Hegelian sentry, Jon Stewart; Erdmann: appropriation and criticism, error and understanding, Stephan Bitter; Günther: Kierkegaard's use of an Austrian Catholic theologian, Christoph Kronabel and Jon Stewart; Marheineke: the volatilization of Christian doctrine, Heiko Schulz; Julius Müller: parallels in the doctrines of sin and freedom in Kierkegaard and Müller, Christine Axt-Piscalar; Rosenkranz: traces of Hegelian psychology and theology in Kierkegaard, Heiko Schulz; Schleiermacher: revisiting Kierkegaard's relationship to him, Richard E. Crouter; D.F. Strauss: Kierkegaard and radical demythologization, George Pattison; Index of persons; Subject index.

Biography

Jon Stewart is Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.