On Kierkegaard and the Truth

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608992720
Publisher: Cascade Books
Publication date: 01/06/2012
Series: Paul L. Holmer Papers , #1
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 342
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David J. Gouwens is Professor of Theology at Brite Divinity School. He is the author of Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination (1989) and Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996).

Lee C. Barrett III is Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Heidelberg Catechism (2007), Foundations of Modern Theology: Kierkegaard (2009), and co-editor of Kierkegaard and the Bible (2010).

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas Editors' Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Author's Preface 1 An Introduction to the Problem 2 A Glance at a Contemporary Effort in Danish Philosophy 3 A New Way of Philosophizing 4 The Bible and Christianity 5 History and the Sciences 6 Truth Is Subjectivity: Some Radical Criticisms 7 Truth Is Subjectivity: Some Logical Considerations 8 Some Epistemological Questions 9 Kierkegaard and Metaphysics 10 Kierkegaard and the Nature of Philosophy 11 Indirect Communication 12 Kierkegaard and the Sermon 13 Faith and Christianity Afterword: Paul L. Holmer: Self-Effacing, Swaggering, Nonpareil / David Cain Appendix - Paul L. Holmer: A Select Bibliography Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects much in vogue recently

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Paul L. Holmer was and is still a largely unheralded Kierkegaard scholar and analytic philosopher. This volume and the collected works series it introduces should do a lot to correct that oversight in both fields. We owe the editors, both of whom were Holmer's students, a great deal of thanks for their labor of love."
-Robert L. Perkins
Stetson University

"Paul Holmer was one of the most interesting and original religious thinkers in mid-twentieth-century America, yet he is little known today. So[enter back slash through O]ren Kierkegaard was his central scholarly interest and his unusual and provocative reading of Kierkegaard is important."
-David Kelsey
Yale Divinity School

"Almost fifty years ago Paul Holmer finished a manuscript about Kierkegaard but then left it unpublished. Instead, emulating Socrates, Holmer spent the following decades focused on encouraging Yale Kierkegaard students to examining their own lives with intellectual rigor. The result was a revolution in American Kierkegaard scholarship . . ."
-Andrew J. Burgess
The University of New Mexico

"With the two-hundredth anniversary of Kierkegaard's birth approaching in 2013, what a treat to have Paul L. Holmer's long awaited and now posthumous On Kierkegaard and the Truth to clarify Kierkegaard's status as a philosopher and the role of logic and reason in his thought. A master philosopher and teacher himself, Holmer knew how to cut to the very essence of a thinker's thought, as he does here with Kierkegaard's."
-Sylvia Walsh
Stetson University

"Professor Paul L. Holmer was the doyen of Kierkegaard studies for much of the later part of the twentieth century. His jargon-free writings are crisp, clear, epiphanic, and always in earnest . . ."
-Gordon Marino
St. Olaf College

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