Faith and the Absurd: Kierkegaard, Camus and Job’s Religious Protest
Religious protest, such as the protest that Job expresses, reveals the manners in which believers experience the absurd while hanging on to God. The purpose of this article is to explore the "grammar" of this paradoxical faith stance by bringing Kierkegaard and Camus to bear upon it, and t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2024, Volume: 117, Issue: 2, Pages: 293-316 |
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Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855
/ Camus, Albert 1913-1960
/ Job
/ Protest
/ God
/ The Absurd
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Camus
B Occupation B Protest B Evil B Kierkegaard B Faith B Suffering |
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| Summary: | Religious protest, such as the protest that Job expresses, reveals the manners in which believers experience the absurd while hanging on to God. The purpose of this article is to explore the "grammar" of this paradoxical faith stance by bringing Kierkegaard and Camus to bear upon it, and thereby to show the "family resemblance" between Job, Camus’s "absurd man," and the Kierkegaardian believer. I begin with a discussion of experiences of the absurd that give rise to religious protest. I then turn to Kierkegaard to explore the manners in which "faith’s thought" renders the "experience of the absurd" a religious one, while pushing the believer further into the absurd. I end with a discussion of Job as an absurd rebel in Camus’s sense. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816024000051 |