Journal of Religious Ethics 38 (1):143-186 (2010)
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This essay examines texts from Kierkegaard's signed and pseudonymous authorship on immortality and the resurrection, challenging the received opinion that Kierkegaard's account of eternal life merely connotes a temporal, existential modality of experience as a present eternity. Kierkegaard's thoughts on immortality are more complicated than this reading allows. I demonstrate that Kierkegaard's ideas on the afterlife emerge out of a context in which the topic had been vigorously debated in both Germany and Denmark for more than a decade. In responding to these debates, Kierkegaard establishes a "new argument" for immortality that stands as a robust account of the Christian resurrection and highlights the power of a personal God at the center of life, death, and post-mortem existence
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Keywords | judgment resurrection eschatology grace immortality Kierkegaard |
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DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2009.00417.x |
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments: Text. Vol. 1.Søren Kierkegaard - 1978 - Princeton University Press.
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