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Synopsis: Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor
of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987).
Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most
significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation.
Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and
philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the
contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker.
Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie
Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes
biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently,
seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his
reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects
popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an
analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a
"crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe
Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating
Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and
stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on
"truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth"
empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's
carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of
"truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was
penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth,
meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and
hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in
Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and
philosophy. This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers,
which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion:
Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly:
Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers. Endorsements: "Paul L.
Holmer was and is still a largely unheralded Kierkegaard scholar
and analytic philosopher. This volume and the collected works
series it introduces should do a lot to correct that oversight in
both fields. We owe the editors, both of whom were Holmer's
students, a great deal of thanks for their labor of love." -Robert
L. Perkins Stetson University "Paul Holmer was one of the most
interesting and original religious thinkers in
mid-twentieth-century America, yet he is little known today. So
enter back slash through O]ren Kierkegaard was his central
scholarly interest and his unusual and provocative reading of
Kierkegaard is important." -David Kelsey Yale Divinity School
"Professor Paul L. Holmer was the doyen of Kierkegaard studies for
much of the later part of the twentieth century. His jargon-free
writings are crisp, clear, epiphanic, and always in earnest . . ."
-Gordon Marino St. Olaf College Editor Biographies: David J.
Gouwens is Professor of Theology at Brite Divinity School. He is
the author of Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination (1989) and
Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996). Lee C. Barrett III is
Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He
is the author of The Heidelberg Catechism (2007), Foundations of
Modern Theology: Kierkegaard (2009), and co-editor of Kierkegaard
and the Bible (2010).
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