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          While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively..

          Søren Kierkegaard

          First published Tue Dec 3, 1996; substantive revision Fri May 8, 2009

          Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (b.

          1813, d. 1855) was a profound and prolific writer in the Danish “golden age” of intellectual and artistic activity.

          Kierkegaard was able to compress history into a very simple schema by juxtaposing two irreconcilable opposites: “Christianity has really never come into the.

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        2. While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively.
        3. Being thus misunderstood, Kierkegaard \"Jas forced into a direct assault upon the objective norms of Christendom, leaving behind the kind of indirect.
        4. The resentment of the world that lived in him as a child, awakens within him, he feels alone in this hostile world, he sees all the holy witnesses of the truth.

          5. His work crosses the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, literary criticism, devotional literature and fiction. Kierkegaard brought this potent mixture of discourses to bear as social critique and for the purpose of renewing Christian faith within Christendom.

          At the same time he made many original conceptual contributions to each of the disciplines he employed. He is known as the “father of existentialism”, but at least as important are his critiques of Hegel and of the German romantics, his contributions to the development of modernism, his literary experimentation, his vivid re-presentation of biblical figures to bring out their modern relevance, his invention of key concepts which have been explor