Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Martens, Paul Henry. | |
| dc.creator | Millay, Thomas J., 1986- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T14:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T14:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2019-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07-15 | |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2019 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-12-04T14:09:38Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been called many things: a Lutheran, a Pietist, a mystic, a poet, and the first existentialist philosopher. While these labels all have some degree of truth, I argue that the best name for Kierkegaard is that of a Christian ascetic. Kierkegaard was committed to a vision of the Christian life as suffering for the truth in imitation of Christ, a suffering that necessarily entails poverty, chastity, obedience, and—above all—persecution. The importance of Kierkegaard’s embrace of asceticism was not only personal; this commitment to suffering was at the same time a rejection of Christian nationalism and the selfish aims of the modern nation-state. In this way, Kierkegaard offers the Christian within modernity a new way to be devout: a personal renunciation that is always, at the same time, political. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2104/10728 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | No access - Contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu | |
| dc.subject | Kierkegaard. Asceticism. Nationalism. | |
| dc.title | Suffering and the Christian life : the asceticism of Søren Kierkegaard. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| local.embargo.lift | 2024-08-01 | |
| local.embargo.terms | 2024-08-01 | |
| thesis.degree.department | Baylor University. Dept. of Religion. | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Baylor University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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