| Description |
x, 208 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Three Writers Facing the Modern Challenges to Religion -- Modernity: Religion as Construction -- Anticipations of Postmodernism? -- Technical Information and a Reflection on the Scope of This Study -- Lessing: Conceptual Differentiation, Critique of Tradition, and Acceptance of Plurality -- Setting the Stage: Lessing's Historical Position and Contribution -- Lessing's Aim -- Truth and Human Development--Anthropological Teleology -- Is There Religious Truth without Secure Historical Truth? Toward a New Notion of Natural Religion -- The Background for Human Development in the Treatise on Education -- The Relationship between Natural and Revealed Religion -- On the Development of Religion and Religious Subjectivity in Christianity and Its Background -- Plurality without Truth? -- Lessing's Mediate Position as a Critic and a Mask Wearer -- Relativizing the Impact of Religion--Transforming the Subject: Nathan as a Final Gateway to Lessing's Understanding of Religion -- Kierkegaard: Irony and the Struggle for Authentic Appropriation of Religion: Anticipations of Postmodern Attitudes, Insights, and Problems -- Kierkegaard's Dissertation on Irony Read as a Prolegomenon to Postmodernism -- Socratic Irony -- Romantic Irony and Christian Faith -- Conclusion: As a Mastered Element, Irony Creates Reality -- Faith, Truth, and History--Kierkegaard's Answer to Lessing -- The Religious Mode of Existence: Subjectivity as Passion for Truth -- Faith Shapes the Development of Subjectivity -- Decontextualized Individuality -- Different Modes of Religious Subjectivity. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages201-206) and index. |
| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy -- History.
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Religion.
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Religion.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Religion.
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| ISBN |
080284927X paperback alkaline paper |
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