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Kierkegaardian Truth-Telling

(This comes from an apologetics paper I once wrote.) 

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) takes issue with the modernist approach of alienating the subject from the world, but does so from a different perspective than Heidegger (although there are some similarities of approach, especially since Heidegger was influenced by Kierkegaard). Although he has been accused of being fideistic, [...]

A Heideggerian Question

(This is an excerpt from an apologetics paper I once wrote.)

Martin Heidegger (1899-1976) sought for a new way of considering the “whatness” of things by asking the question, “What does it mean for something – anything – to exist at all?”  Not this particular thing, nor that (i.e., the realm of the sciences and traditional [...]

Suspended Between Two Worlds

Within the Christian life, there is an inherent tension between the inner and the outer, the “in” but not “of” this world.  The battle for holiness must be fought on both fronts, and there are deadly seductions in both directions.  Of the two, the European pietistic tradition has made the inner life of priority: [...]