Socrates, Nicodemus, and Zacchaeus: Kierkegaard and Halík on conversion and offense
This paper examines Tomáš Halík's Patience With God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing in Us in light of Kierkegaard's insistence upon conversion. Against forms of Christianity which would understand conversion as issuing, of necessity, from a rigorous thinking-through of objective proofs...
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| 语言: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2019]
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International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2019, 卷: 80, 发布: 4/5, Pages: 482-494 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855
/ Nikodemus
/ Halík, Tomáš 1948-
/ Bibel. Lukasevangelium 19,1-10
/ 皈依
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HC New Testament KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church |
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Atheism
B offense B Søren Kierkegaard B Tomáš Halík B Solidarity B Suffering B Conversion |
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| 总结: | This paper examines Tomáš Halík's Patience With God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing in Us in light of Kierkegaard's insistence upon conversion. Against forms of Christianity which would understand conversion as issuing, of necessity, from a rigorous thinking-through of objective proofs or of the ends of human desire, Kierkegaard insists upon a conversion that passes through offense at the God-man's scandalous invitation. Though Halík approvingly cites Kierkegaard's insistence upon a faith worked out in fear and trembling, and, like Kierkegaard, sees contemporaneity with Christ as possible only because of Jesus' own experience of God-forsakenness, deep differences remain - especially with regard to the necessity of consciousness of sin. This paper will thus consider whether Halík's ‘patience' dulls the passion of faith and obscures the decisiveness of the moment, and whether Halík's portrayal of Christian responsibility as solidarity leads not to Zacchaeus or to Socrates, but to Nicodemus. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2019.1661272 |