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| Soren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855) Danish journal writer, theologist and philosopher. |
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Walking with Kierkegaard, Part 1
In preparation for Tripp's class on the Life and Theology of Soren Kierkegaard I am publishing several posts to help readers become acquainted with the lauded Danish writer. Soren carries several titles in life, including that of the common man's philosopher which is gleaned through his writings and journals over his foreshortened lifespan of 42 years.I've included Stephen Backhouse's dialogue with Tripp Fuller from several years back and cannot recommend it enough in its helpfulness and heartening fellowship. So much so that Stephen Backhouse has become one of my most endearing theologians of late. He's concise, clear, glib, and thoroughly versed in the bible world of Soren's Danish/European culture of the 1800s in transposing Soren's thoughts to us today in the postmodern era of the 21st century.
An era in which we live with the church's evangelical confusion with difference and plurality; the biblical inadequacies of Christiandom in its white nationalism bannered by God and Country logos; and the lostness of today's modernistic church attempting a transition from what it is to what it might become if focused on the love of God shared in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, our Savior.
Christians, caught within the melee of associating Christ with an ungodly, unloving, Christian culture full of loud words and abhorrent social policies combined with ungodly political and ideological iconography shouting God, Guns, Flags, and Xenophobia, Christianity is as conflicted as it has always been and exactly on the wrong side of love and liberty once again. Soren's view of the church in his day may help in our reflection and counter-reactions to the worldly church of our day. Thus today's insightful video.
Lastly, let me say that I enjoyed getting to know Backhouse has he and Tripp speak to a resurrected Christian worldview less attached with religious unkindness, unthoughtfulness, and idolatry. And for all this I believe Soren Kierkegaard would assuredly say "Amen and Amen. Thus saith the Lord!"
R.E. SlaterOctober 5, 2021
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Kierkegaard: A Single Life by Stephen Backhouse
Discover a new understanding of Kierkegaard’s thought and his life, a story filled with romance, betrayal, humor, and riots.
Kierkegaard, like Einstein and Freud, is one of those geniuses whose ideas permeate the culture and shape our world even when relatively few people have read their works. That lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is about to change.
This lucid new biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse presents the genius as well as the acutely sensitive man behind the brilliant books. Scholarly and accessible, Kierkegaard: A Single Life introduces his many guises—the thinker, the lover, the recluse, the writer, the controversialist—in prose so compelling it reads like a novel.
One chapter examines Kierkegaard’s influence on our greatest cultural icons—Kafka, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Camus, and Martin Luther King Jr., to name only a few. A useful appendix presents an overview of each of Kierkegaard’s works, for the scholar and lay reader alike.
Why Go Kierkegaard
with Tripp Fuller & Stephen Backhouse
Oct 25, 2016
About Stephen Backhouse
Stephen Backhouse is the Director of Tent Theology, a venture bringing theology to local churches and networks. He was a Dean at Westminster Theological Centre, and before that Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St Mellitus College, London. He has published a number of books and articles on religion, history, national identity and Kierkegaard. Originally from Canada, he now lives in the United Kingdom, with extended time in the United States.
Books by Stephen Backhouse
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