Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecture, second in a series of three on religious existentialism, was concerned with "Christian Existentialism" and its relationship to other schools of thought...
Illusory thinking is the main target for Christian and other schools of existentialist thought...
...different schools attempt to combat "illusory thinking," Neibuhr said. The Christian existentialist approach is based on the relationship between selves, while the "positivist" school focuses on defining the precise relationship between things...
...sentence "I am guilty," the positivist is concerned with the word "guilty," while the Christian existentialist considers "I" the crucial word...
Niebuhr believes the existentialist mode of thinking has been present in Christian writings since Augustine first considered his relationship to God. Luther and Pascal, both questioners of their own being and its place in the universe, sought the same truths for which modern existentialists are striving...