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Individual And The Christian Faith

Posted on:2011-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Q ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305473352Subject:Religious Studies
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Kierkegaard as one of Hegelian rebels, is a very contradict and complex characters in the history of Western thought. The relationship between the individual and Christian faith is a revolutionary thought of Kierkegaard, it also constitutes one of classic tensions. After established his own unique existence concept, Kierkegaard divide two types existences that are the aesthetic existence and the ethical existence which with no foundations,and then he revealed the lethal diseases in these two non-roots approach--the situation of despair and emptiness, and he contact the deepening despair step toward to the "sin" in Christian. Therefore, in accordance with the intention of Kierkegaard thought that the individual only through faith to overcome despair, so it mean to become a Christian.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kierkegaard, individual, despair, faith
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