I have been busy lately and haven’t had time to consider the Dreyfus-Kierkegaard-Dostoevsky question which I have been discussing. Most of my time has been filled with either holiday related activities or preparations for my Romans class. Yesterday morning I was reading through Grieb’s book The Story of Romans about chapter 4 of Romans. For [...]

I am still listening to the Dreyfus lectures. I am in the middle of his discussion on “The Grand Inquistor”. I have been thinking hard about what Dreyfus has to say about this story which Ivan creates in the larger story of The Brother’s Karamazov. Although I think his lectures are helpful in illuminating certain [...]

{The beginning of a response to Jake who responded to me, about my response to an old question/comment about Issac, which came from a much larger conversation about Kierkegaard, Faith, and Hubert Dreyfus’ lectures.} I have been reading The Brothers Karamazov—though I feel like I have been reading it for years, I am still only [...]

By way of reading Tickle’s book The Great Emergence I came across a very interesting cross-pollination of sorts. There is a connection of ideas between the Pentecostals and Kierkegaard—I’m not sure if the founders of Pentecostalism had read Kierkegaard, but it sure would be interesting research to find out their influences for their ideas—both believe [...]

I recently looked back to some old posts on Jake’s blog, where he is discussing/questioning Kierkegaard’s reading of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac. I wish I could say I read through it all, but I was distracted/lost interest before I got very far. One question which jumped out at me was put to Jake by one [...]