By Simon D. Podmore
Simon D. Podmore claims that turning into a self prior to God is either a divine present and an frightened legal responsibility. earlier than we will recognize God, or ourselves, we needs to come to a second of popularity. How this involves be, in addition to the phrases of such acknowledgment, are labored out in Podmore’s strong new interpreting of Kierkegaard. As he supplies complete attention to Kierkegaard's writings, Podmore explores subject matters similar to depression, nervousness, depression, and non secular trial, and the way they're damaged by way of the triumph of religion, forgiveness, and the affection of God. He confronts the abyss among the self and the divine in an effort to know how we will come to grasp ourselves on the subject of a God who's it sounds as if so totally Other.
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