Paul L. Holmer 
On Kierkegaard and the Truth [EPUB ebook] 

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Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987). Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer’s theological and philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker. Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie Kierkegaard to any particular ’school.‘ He likewise criticizes biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently, seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his reader’s own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a ‚crypto-analyst.‘ Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating Kierkegaard’s ‚cool‘ descriptive objectivity and his ironic and stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on ‚truth, ‚ Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see ‚truth‘ empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer’s carefully textured account of Kierkegaard’s conceptual grammar of ‚truth‘ in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and philosophy.
This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers.

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David Cain is Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, and minister in the United Church of Christ. He is editor of Sermons of Arthur C. Mc Gill, (Cascade Books, 2007), and author and photographer of An Evocation of Kierkegaard / En Fremkaldelse af Kierkegaard (1997).

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 342 ● ISBN 9781621894346 ● Dateigröße 1.9 MB ● Herausgeber David J. Gouwens & Lee C. Barrett ● Verlag Wipf and Stock Publishers ● Ort Eugene ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2012 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 6886921 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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