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"The article claims that ultimately both approaches share a romantic vision. Confronted with an increasingly skeptical mid-nineteenth-century audience, Williams and Kierkegaard seem to suggest that religious truth-claims are best communicated poetically."

https://rotsinn.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/an-odd-couple-isaac-williams-and-soren-kierkegaard/

#theology #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #isaacwilliams #literature #poetry

An Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

The poet, theologian, and member of the Oxford Movement Isaac Williams (1802–1865) and the Danish intellectual Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) never communicated with each other. However, they shared…

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"The article claims that ultimately both approaches share a romantic vision. Confronted with an increasingly skeptical mid-nineteenth-century audience, Williams and Kierkegaard seem to suggest that religious truth-claims are best communicated poetically."

https://rotsinn.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/an-odd-couple-isaac-williams-and-soren-kierkegaard/

#theology #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #isaacwilliams #literature #poetry

An Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

The poet, theologian, and member of the Oxford Movement Isaac Williams (1802–1865) and the Danish intellectual Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) never communicated with each other. However, they shared…

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Interested in Kierkegaard and/or the Oxford Movement?

My article "What an Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard" has just been published in "Religion & Literature" @notredame.bsky.social

https://religionandlit.nd.edu/issues/current-issue/

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#religion #literature #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #theology #poetry

Current Issue

Religion & Literature seeks to publish high-quality, innovative scholarship that explores the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language.

Religion & Literature Journal

Interested in Kierkegaard and/or the Oxford Movement?

My article "What an Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard" has just been published in "Religion & Literature" @notredame.bsky.social

https://religionandlit.nd.edu/issues/current-issue/

Please share. Thanks.
#religion #literature #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #theology #poetry

Current Issue

Religion & Literature seeks to publish high-quality, innovative scholarship that explores the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language.

Religion & Literature Journal
Was Thomas Mann 1937 über die Demokratie sagte.

Im Folgenden gebe ich einige Zitate von Thomas Mann wieder. Sie stammen aus einem Vortrag, den der Autor 1937 in den USA hielt. Ich zitiere aus folgender Ausgabe: Thomas Mann 2005: Vom zukünftigen …

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Politische #Theologie des #Parlamentarismus ?

Über einen Gedanken des britischen Politikwissenschaftlers Ernest Barker (1874-1960).

https://rotsinn.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/ernest-barker-uber-eine-politische-theologie-des-parlaments/

#politik #politikwissenschaft

Ernest Barker über eine politische Theologie des Parlaments.

Derzeit lerne ich den britischen Politikwissenschaftler Ernest Barker (1874-1960) näher kennen. Barker dozierte nach verschiedenen akademischen Stationen in Cambridge und hatte dort eine der ersten…

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