God as the Subject of Unique Veneration: A Response to Ronald M. Green
It is true that we draw nearer the key significance of Fear and Trembling if we supplement the now too standard readings of the text as an exploration of the moral force of divine commands, but to do that we need not resort to reading the work exclusively as a treatment of justification by faith. Ki...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1993
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1993, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-215 |
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| Summary: | It is true that we draw nearer the key significance of Fear and Trembling if we supplement the now too standard readings of the text as an exploration of the moral force of divine commands, but to do that we need not resort to reading the work exclusively as a treatment of justification by faith. Kierkegaard presents Abraham as an exemplar whose faith is informed by, but not constricted by, the ethical and whose example has, and is meant to have, normative force. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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