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KIERKEGAARD'S EXISTENTIAL DIALECTICS IN THE KINGDOM OF ENDS AND TILLICH'S CONCEPT OF THEONOMY
Presenter: Professor Peter Slater on November 9, 2007, at 7:15 pm, Combination Room,
Trinity College, University of Toronto. Arguably the most influential response to Kant's transcendental dialectics for later Christian philosophers and theologians was Schelling's, as appropriated by Kierkegaard and Tillich. Where Hegel discerned the cunning of reason in history, they transposed the Lutheran doctrine of justification by grace through faith into a philosophical key. For them the Spirit/spirit dynamic in history engenders an existential dialectic, in which human passion only momentarily overcomes the dread of not becoming who we are called to be, through the historic paradox of the "concrete universal" encountered in "the Christ Event." This presentation examines the meaning-giving power of Kierkegaard's existential response to Hegel as elaborated theologically by Tillich.
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