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Upcoming Session
Time: April 8, 2005
7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Combination Room, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto
416-978-2522 (for directions)
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Does Barth’s Criticism Reach
Kierkegaard?
by
Professor David Demson
Regis College, University of Toronto
and
Professor Philip Zeigler
Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax
Barth contends that
1) in describing the conditions for thinking
and living as a genuine (rather than as a sham) Christian, Kierkegaard
fell prey to legalism;
2) while an apparent foe of the Christianity
and churchiness of "the pious", Kierkegaard, in fact, fortified the
basis of the version of Christianity he found so offensive and false;
3) Kierkegaard propounded a view of the
individual that neglected an understanding of the human as co-human.
Do these criticisms really expose weaknesses in Kierkegaard's
work? Or, is Barth criticizing not Kierkegaard, but rather an
apocryphal account of Kierkegaard?
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For information, the Circle met on November 5, 2004,
Topic:
Kierkegaard and The Modern Media:
The Age of Virtual Reality
Speaker: Richard Nielsen
Film
and TV Producer
and Screen Writer
Inquiry: Abrahim H. Khan
Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1H8
416-978-3039 (Off)
khanah@chass.utoronto.ca
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