In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker Søren Kierkegaard on biblical, Christian faith and its relation to reason. Across five books -Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Sickness Unto Death, and Practice in Christianity -and three pseudonyms, Kierkegaard sought to articulate a biblical concept of faith by approaching it from a variety of perspectives...

Offers a brief profile of the Danish philosopher, discusses his concept of existentialism, and assesses the impact of his work.

Personal, experiential faith is seldom given a seat at the table of academic theology and biblical studies. David Crump, however, with the assistance of Søren Kierkegaard's religious philosophy, claims that "authentic understanding, and thus authentic Christian commitment, can only arise from the personal commitment that is faith."
Examining the various biblical, historical, cultural, theological, and academic hurdles demanding a truly Kierkegaardian...

In A Passion For Truth, Heschel delves into the exploration of hope and despair in Hasidism. Heschel drew on his own experiences from his study of the Kotzker and the Baal Shem Tov to create this classic work.

"Clare Carlisle's innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard's remarkable life as far as possible from his own perspective, conveying what it was like to be this Socrates of Christendom"--

These are some of the false solutions to the riddle of existence explored by Sören Kierkegaard as he sought to avoid the boredom and emptiness, the muted agony and pervasive malaise, of an unexamined life. Perhaps no other thinker has provided such trenchant criticism of the paths which lead to dead ends - or offered so many new directions for those willing to think deeply about themselves. As John Mullen says in his Introduction, "No one, not the...