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Faith Envy
Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Weil on Desirable Faith
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2021
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From time to time, both believers and nonbelievers envy those with more faith. In this book, Hermen Kroesbergen coins the concept of faith envy as an angle to investigate faith and religious language, and provide a new direction for the philosophy of religion. For far too long, the philosophy of religion has focused on statements of faith concerning superempirical powers, forgetting that if they would ever be able to prove these statements, they cease to be religious. Kroesbergen explores the possibility of using the angle of faith envy for a much-needed alternative approach, using the philosophers Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Simone Weil as guides. Their lives and works have often been studied for what they have to say about religious beliefs; here, however, the focus is on what they have to say about the faith they envy. Our own faith envy, and Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and Weil’s struggle to make sense of it provides a deeper insight into what faith is and could be. This book is a timely and provocative intervention in a philosophy of religion that has reached a dead end, and a society that is deeply troubled about faith but envies it nonetheless.
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Edition
1/2021
Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1125-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1126-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
132
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Kierkegaard—More Than an Idea No access Pages 13 - 32
Wittgenstein—Surrendering Your Self No access Pages 33 - 52
Weil—Open to the World No access Pages 53 - 72
The Answers of Faith No access Pages 73 - 90
The Safety of Faith No access Pages 91 - 108
Conclusion No access Pages 109 - 120
Bibliography No access Pages 121 - 126
Index No access Pages 127 - 130
About the Author No access Pages 131 - 132
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