THE HOLY & WHOLLY OTHER: KIERKEGAARD ON THE ALTERITY OF GOD
The Heythrop Journal September 6, 2011 Simon D. Podmore 3 citations
In response to prevailing perceptions, I contend that Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) conceives of the wholly otherness of God via his dialectical category of the ‘infinite qualitative difference’ between the human and the divine, initially through the self's consciousness of sin and ultimately through the self's acceptance of the gift of forgiveness. Therefore, I claim that while the common...