Word: kierkegaard
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Kafka has been called a gloomy writer, a follower of bleak Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. He was, in fact, one of the rarest types in literature-a religious humorist...
...Inwardness & Absurdity." On the surface Kierkegaard's life was both short and dull. Born in Copenhagen in 1813, he spent his college years in dilettantism, passed a course of theological studies cum laude, but was never ordained, fell in love but did not dare ger married, used up his inheritance in publishing his books, and died in 1855 at the age of 42-just when his money had run out. But that was Kierkegaard's life on the surface. His real life was a long, exciting, bitter, lonely struggle within himself. The fruit of that' struggle...
This inwardness of all truth-giving experience, far from bridging the breach between man and God, widened that breach, for Kierkegaard: man, he felt, is so completely other than God that the Christian doctrine of God's incarnation in human form is nothing less than "absurd." To believe this magnificent absurdity God has provided man with the gift of faith, and only by faith-never by intellect or learning-can man believe...
Christendom v. Christianity. All Kierkegaard's work, he confessed, revolved around the problem of "how to become a Christian." Wrote Kierkegaard...
...Mostly by Dr. Walter Lowrie and the University of Minnesota's late Professor David F. Swenson. * Modern "existentialists," like Sartre and Camus, have kidnapped Kierkegaard's "absurdity," stripped it of all religious significance, and beaten it into insensibility, using it merely as a dummy to dramatize what they consider the futility of any way of life...