Human Striving and Absolute Reliance upon God: A Kierkegaardian Paradox
Kierkegaard's texts suggest countervailing construals of the respective roles of divine and human agency in an individual's pursuit of blessedness. Kierkegaard paradoxically suggests that the individual must depend entirely on grace for the birth and development of faith, and at the same t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[201-08-11]
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2021, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 139-164 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NAB Fundamental theology NBL Doctrine of Predestination NBM Doctrine of Justification |
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| Summary: | Kierkegaard's texts suggest countervailing construals of the respective roles of divine and human agency in an individual's pursuit of blessedness. Kierkegaard paradoxically suggests that the individual must depend entirely on grace for the birth and development of faith, and at the same time actively cultivate faithful dispositions and passions. But Kierkegaard did not espouse Calvinistic divine determinism, or Pelagian autonomous human agency, or the Arminian cooperation of the two. For Kierkegaard, the ostensible paradox of grace and free will is not a cognitive conundrum but is rather a challenge to integrate faith as a gift and faith as a task. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2021-0007 |