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Although he died in 1855, the great Dan ish existentialist Soren Kierkegaard de scribed the effects of anxiety in terms that are strikingly apt today. He spoke of his "cowardly age," in which "one does ev erything possible...
...famine, not pestilence, not war will bring back seriousness," Kierkegaard once said. "It is not till the eternal punishments of hell regain their reality that man will turn serious." German Philosopher Karl Jaspers feels that there is a fairly vivid equivalent of the horrors of hell in the threatened nuclear extinction of the human race. The Future of Mankind is a stern call to seriousness. It is also a call to reason, courage and responsibility. It is based on a premise that may sound bleak, but has probably been the rock of man's endurance through the ages...
...Social Gospel." Today, hellfire and brimstone revivalists are increasingly scarce, and though emotion-packed evangelism is still part of every Baptist sermon, more and more Baptist preachers are university-trained. They read the classics, study foreign languages, keep informed on science. Richmond's Theodore Adams quotes Kierkegaard in his sermons; Pastor Blake Smith of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas likes to quote Balzac, while New Orleans' J. D. Grey is likely to make his points with tags from poets and philosophers...
...Life, he cries, is the meaning of life. "Step by step you go into the darkness. The movement itself is the only truth . . . The most dangerous ways are the only passable ones." It is an existentialist statement, and Bergman is a passionate existentialist, but more in Christian Kierkegaard's than in Atheist Sartre's sense. "Man's essence," wrote Sartre, "is his existence." Man's essence, says Bergman, is God's existence. "Somehow life goes on. I believe in life, in this life, a life after death, all kinds of life . . . And death...
...nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and Kant. Later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Lichtenberg was even more valued by such greats as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard who saw in him evidence of their own existential approach to philosophy. That Lichtenberg was in many ways ahead of his time is true, for in a time of rampant Enlightenment rationalism Lichtenberg retained a wry skepticism quite uncharacteristic...