February 5, 2010 by at 4:31 pm
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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"In spite of … a body of thought strongly marked with the heritage of the Reformation, Mr. Paul Petit observes that, in the last years of his short life, Kierkegaard seems to have increasingly followed a course which was clearly taking him towards positions not far removed from Catholicism. He is ready to admit, in the realm of critics like Brandes and Hoffding, that if Kierkegaard had been born later, he would have been a Catholic …. That, with slight shades of difference, is the contention of the Rev. Fr. Przywara also. In his book he proposes to show that in Kierkegaard an anonymous Catholicism is to be found; by his call for objective authority and by his views on the ordination of priests as an intermediate objective authority, Kierkegaard is asserted to have crossed the border-line of Lutheranism and pointed the way to `Holy Mother Church'". (From 1963. Meridian Books, p.59).
I believe. However, could someone tell me explicitly where can be found Kierkegaard's "call for objective authority and by his views on the ordination of priests as an intermediate objective authority"?
Maybe in Kierkegaard's essay, "Of the Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle." Maybe in various scattered journal entries.
The book that's being quoted in this passage is: The Drama of Atheist Humanism
I'm sure it's a good read, but just how many times has this book been written?
Thanks Rufus.
Thanks Rufus.
I actually had to write an essay on this on my PhD qualifying exam…
He may have had hard words for Luther, but I can't quite see him as Catholic. Maybe if he were born later…maybe.