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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.
'Christian nationalism' refers to the set of ideas in which belief
in the development and superiority of one's national group is
combined with, or underwritten by, Christian theology and practice.
A critique of Christian nationalism is implicit throughout the
thought of Soren Kierkegaard, an analysis inseparable from his
wider aim of reintroducing Christianity into Christendom.
Stephen Backhouse examines the nationalist theologies of
Kierkegaard's contemporaries H.L. Martensen and N.F.S. Grundtvig,
to show how Kierkegaard's thought developed in response to the
writings of these important cultural leaders of the day.
Kierkegaard's response formed the backbone of his own philosophical
and theological project, namely his attempt to form authentic
Christian individuals through the use of 'the moment', 'the leap'
and 'contemporaneity'.
This study brings Kierkegaard's critique of Christian nationalism
into conversation with current political science theories of
religious nationalism and reflects on the implications of
Kierkegaard's radical approach. While the critique is unsettling to
politicians and church leaders alike, nevertheless there is much to
commend it to the reality of modern religious and social life. As a
theological thinker keenly aware of the unique problems posed by
Christendom, Kierkegaard's critique is timely for any Christian
culture that is tempted to confuse its faith with patriotism or
national affiliation.
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