Word: kierkegaard
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...Missing God A controversial exploration of the existence of God: "Soren Kierkegaard warned that 'the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with.' During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: 'We are proceeding toward a time of no religion at all.' For many, that time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly...
...funny reading. Lodge is best known for his blazing satires of academic life (Changing Places, Small World). Here he falters because he doesn't know TV operatives as well as he knows the profs he studied closely during his teaching career. Also, Tubby has a preoccupation with Kierkegaard, clearly important to the author but not to the reader...
Gravitas The liberal-intellectual crowd gathers nightly on the well, the Bay Area- based Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. The media and radio conferences attract the glitterati, and participants in the philosophy conference know not only the spelling of Kierkegaard's name but the views he propounded...
...just say it's what you'd expect from aPudding show written by one person who has read abit too much Kierkegaard and one person who, whenthe script was first written, had not seen aPudding play." Heller pauses and then says. "onthe other hand, I think it's funny...
...sidewalk, have reached that perilous moment of realization: The snow is too soft to serve as a causeway, the puddle is too wide for evasion, too long for jumping and too deep for tip-toeing. It is here that Cantabrigians can be seen drawing on their knowledge of Kierkegaard, and taking a heedless leap of faith (faith in what, you ask? Not God, but in the cans of silicone they applied to their Timberlands, of course...