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Otherwise, this reading list puts together the top eight books of and about the philosophical movement of existentialism. It contains a mix of primary and secondary literature — from introductions and anthologies to the original texts of the deeply influential existentialist figureheads themselves. Let’s jump in!
May 27, 2020 · Perhaps most importantly, Kierkegaard places doubt at the centre of Christian faith. He argues that Christianity is not based on objective certainty but subjective relationships with God. These subjective relationships depend on making a “leap of faith”, believing wholeheartedly in God regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
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Sep 2, 2020 · His recent books include A Phenomenology of the Devout Life (Oxford University Press, 2018) and A Rhetorics of the Word (Oxford University Press, 2019), being the first two parts of a trilogy on the philosophy of Christian life.
Perhaps the main representative for Christian existentialism is the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Aaby Kierkegaard, (1813–1855) whose thinking had a broad but prominent influence on systematic theology, continental philosophy, literature, and arts. Within dogmatics, his thoughts have renewed and inspired both Christology (Karl ...
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Christian existentialist Vytautas Mačernis: June 5, 1921 – October 7, 1944 Lithuania Poet Naguib Mahfouz: December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006 Egypt Novelist Gabriel Marcel: December 7, 1889 – October 8, 1973 France Theologian, philosopher Christian existentialist Maurice Merleau-Ponty: March 14, 1908 – May 3, 1961 France Philosopher
NameLivedNationalityOccupationJuly 15, 1901 – September 9, 1990ItalyPhilosopherJanuary 18, 1931 – September 25, 1976ColombiaPhilosopherOctober 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975GermanyPhilosopherFebruary 17, 1917 – July 25, 2002EgyptPhilosopherOct 2, 2021 · John Macquarrie’s Studies in Christian Existentialism (1965) is a collection of seventeen essays by the author of An Existentialist Theology: A Comparison of Heidegger and Bultmann (1955) and Existentialism (1972), this latter work being a standard textbook and one of the best thematic introductions to the subject.
Jan 6, 2023 · 1. Nihilism and the Crisis of Modernity. We can find early glimpses of what might be called the “existential attitude” (Solomon 2005) in the Stoic and Epicurean philosophies of antiquity, in the struggle with sin and desire in St. Augustine’s Confessions, in the intimate reflections on death and the meaning of life in Michel de Montaigne’s Essays, and in the confrontation with the ...
