Word: kierkegaard
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...Pockets. Two decades ago Buber was almost unknown outside Jewish seminaries; today, paperback editions of his work are staples of college bookstores, and "I-Thou" is as familiar a spiritual catchphrase as Kierkegaard's "leap of faith," or Tillich's "ultimate concern." Deeply rooted in tradition, Buber spoke with an unmistakably contemporary voice. His stress on authentic human relations is a timely warning for a depersonalized world. His vision of man living on "a narrow ridge" of "holy insecurity" rings true for many concerned about the shadow of holocaust. But like many another phrasemaking prophet, suggests Dr. Ernst...
Philosophers are seldom in the head lines, yet they are often the true revolutionaries of some succeeding age. Karl Marx blueprinted the political upheavals of the 20th century in the reading room of the British Museum; Soren Kierkegaard's fiery polemics, scorned by the sturdy burghers of Copenhagen, are the foundation of existentialism. Today, a number of Roman Catholic intellectuals believe that a little-known thinker of commensurate stature has been patiently laying some philosophical land mines for the future. He is Canadian Jesuit Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, 60, whose followers assert that history may reckon him a mind...
Behind the daily wit of Peanuts, concludes Short, lies an essentially Christian view of reality. Its characters, of course, act out a comedy. But that is precisely what Christianity is, a divine comedy defined by Soren Kierkegaard as "the most humorous point of view in the history of the world." Such fundamental doctrines as the Resurrection, the Incarnation, the Holy Spirit, have always been an offense to cold reason-"a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles," as St. Paul put it. In fact, says Short, one literally has to become like a child to believe such things...
...anyone could be." Time and again through its turbulent, long history, Christianity has heard the voice of its own angry prophets denouncing the established disorder-St. Paul complaining about the immoralities of Corinth, St. Francis rejecting the pomp of the medieval church, Luther fulminating at the luxury of Rome, Kierkegaard howling vainly against the placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark...
...nine new courses will include Scandinavian Mythology, Scandinavian Folklore, Introduction to Germanic and Norse Literature. The Age of Kierkegaard, and Advanced Danish, for undergraduates. The Department Germanic languages and Literatures will offer graduate courses in runic inscriptions and modern Swedish literature, as well as a seminar on Strindberg, and possibly a course on modern Icelandic...