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The Truth is the WayKierkegaard's Theologia Viatorum
Author: Christopher Ben SimpsonSCM Veritas, engages in critical and original questions of pressing concern to both philosophers and theologians. The major concern of all books in this series is to display a rigorous theological critique of categories not often thought to be theological in character, such as phenomenology or metaphysics which are mainly considered as philosophical categories. All the books in this series aim to illustrate that without theology, something essential is lost in our accounts of such categories – not only in the abstract but in the way in which we inhabit the world. In The Truth Is the Way, Christopher Ben Simpson presents Kierkegaard’s work as a theologia viatorum, a theology to guide one on life’s way. This truth that is the way is at once existential, metaphysical, and theological—the highest truth is a living in accord with reality that is revealed to us and enabled in us by Jesus Christ. This picture of Kierkegaard’s thought, drawing on the whole of his published corpus, presents his perspectives (by way of prolegomena) on the nature of truth, of communication and of faith and (more substantially) his guiding vision of the world, God, humanity, and Christ, culminating in Kierkegaard’s understanding of the manner of life lived in light of this vision—of a journey walked in the virtues of patience, faith, hope, and love toward a life of joy in the midst of suffering, of communion with oneself, with God, with others.
Categories: Philosophy, SCM Veritas Publication Date: 29 October 2010 By SCM Press Binding/Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Status: Not Yet Published Price: £45.00 ISBN: 9780334043713
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