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Fors Clavigera: Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture: "Part bombshell, part pastoral epistle"

…what’s at stake here is existential, and not merely intellectual. It is simply - and yet terrifyingly - a matter of faith. This doesn’t make it anti-intellectual; rather, as Crump emphasizes, it is a matter of intellectual passion or what Kierkegaard calls “subjective” thinking. Such thinking is not characterized by the safe, cool distance of reflection but rather the existential heat of the encounter.

It’s now on my “to-read” list.

thxitsvintage:

Hand-lettering by Edward Gorey, Anchor’s first art director, 1953-1960.

These covers are so much better than the covers of the Kierkegaard books I own.

(Reblogged from ayjay)

http://kierkegaardintheworld.com/

“Kierkegaard in the World” celebrates the 200th anniversary of Kierkegaard’s birth by examining the ways in which the world figures in his thought, and the ways in which his thought has entered the world.

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I read as much Kierkegaard as I could get my hands on. I was sure Kierkegaard was right to put stress on the “how” of the faith as necessary for understanding the “what.” Put differently, I was learning from [Paul] Holmer’s account of Kierkegaard (as well as from [Julian] Hartt) that theology is best understood as a form of practical reason. Moreover, I learned from Kierkegaard that the truth of practical reason is Christ, and thus practical reason cannot be constrained by the accommodated form of the church identified with Christendom.
Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir.
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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

Epistle of James 1:22-24.

I’ve been leading my church small group in a discussion of the Epistle of James over the past few months so I’ve been reading it a lot lately. These few verses came to mind as I listened to Episode 32 of the University of Chicago’s Elucidations Podcast. It was an interview with Jennifer Lockhart about ignorant knowledge. If you want more information, you could always read her dissertation: Kierkegaard: Indirect Communication and Ignorant Knowledge.