Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downright healthily subversive, he argues, since it reasserts the value and power of unique, individual expression over and against the manipulated and prepackaged garbage the commercial culture foists on us. All this is profoundly true. Cox points to the spiritual autobiography of Augustine and to the journals of Kierkegaard as examples of the immediacy of understanding and identification that "testimony" brings to the reader of a theologian's work...
...modestly popular, but from the start he has had brilliant success with critics. An author is of course not accountable for the praise he attracts. After a while, though, it becomes questionable whether reviewers do a young writer good-Mano is 31-to compare him with the likes of Kierkegaard and Evelyn Waugh. Mano is still a writer of more promise than achievement. His strengths are energy, earnestness and a tough intelligence. But he is a stiff writer, not especially imaginative, and his overdrawn characters tend to be mere mouthpieces for ideas...
...another given by a student of sexual exorcism, Kolakowski indicts Christianity for its contempt of the body, and by implication, of this world. While this second section is not so successful nor so concise as the first, it is more ambitious. Kolakowski is trying to be a Marxist Kierkegaard, even to the extent of simulating the same use of irony by impersonation of a point of view he means to discredit. But Kolakowski is not ventriloquist enough. The false perspective does not convince, and so the correct one stands out too visibly between the lines. Consequently the book stumbles onto...
...another vein, many spiritual pilgrims are returning to an appreciation of mysticism. More Jews today-especially the young-are delving into the mysteries of Hasidism, and Christians are re-examining their own great mystics: Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and Sören Kierkegaard. Many mainstream Protestants and Catholics, while staying mostly within their churches, are caught up in the rapidly expanding Pentecostal movement. The Pentecostalists seek to renew their belief through an ecstatic personal encounter with the Holy Spirit, manifested especially in glossolalia, the speaking of mysterious tongues. These neo-Pentecostalists tend...
...Danish theologian-philosopher Sören Kierkegaard called despair "the sickness unto death." His description also applies to the severe psychiatric illnesses once labeled melancholia by Freud. These are not the down moods that plague everyone occasionally, but immobilizing and devastating conditions that often cause physical signs and symptoms like loss of appetite and weight, insomnia and slowness of body movement...