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Professor Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics - Cambridge University

5. Religion and Theology
Kierkegaard hated religion. He was very specific: religion is not True Christianity. For Kierkegaard to be a christian was a matter of individual subjective passion. It is the living of one’s life apart from church dogma, clerical oversight or human artifice. Nothing stands between the individual and God. Only in a completely […]

4. Crisis and Christ
Kierkegaard believed every human being moves through stages: from Aesthetic to Ethic to Religious (essentially self-centered, community-centered, God-centered). In order to move from Ethic to Religious we must face an existential crisis, a “leap [of] faith” by which we give up our Reason and embrace God (see 1). The crisis we all […]

2. Faith and Doubt
Kierkegaard recognized (correctly, i think) there can be no true faith without doubt. What is faith if not hoping against all doubt that something is true? Believing in spite of doubt - not believing without doubt. If we do not have doubt how can our faith be meaningful? Faith is an act […]

What do angsty teens, post-modernism, existential absurdity and christianity have in common? Enter Soren Kierkegaard: philosopher, theologian, poet, Dane. As a 21st century christian with a deeply conservative background and an increasingly progressive foreground, the ideas espoused by Kierkegaard 175 years ago give me hope - hope because i can be assured that “my” ideas […]