Kierkegaard and Authentic Religious Beliefs

Reformed Theological Seminary

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Kierkegaard and Authentic Religious Beliefs

Lesson 8 Lecture 1

May 15, 2001 • Dr. Ronald Nash

Review Kierkegaard's book "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" (CUP)

Demonstrate the book's (CUP) conscious polemic against the work of Hegel in the areas of reason, society, and religion

Discuss several of the negative factors present in CUP including its depreciation of history, its apparent irrationalism, and its tendency to use important terms in more than one way, thus generating confusion and uncertainty regarding its actual teachings

Introduction and Postmodernism Part 1

May 15, 2001 • Dr. Ronald Nash

In this lesson, you will define the Enlightenment in terms of its major assumptions about God, reason, and progress List the characteristics of the present period (called post–modernity) and explore their relation to the Christian faith

Introduction and Postmodernism Part 2

May 15, 2001 • Dr. Ronald Nash

Rousseau and Kant

May 15, 2001 • Dr. Ronald Nash

Discuss the significance of Rousseau's political ideas and relate them to our current government policies Demonstrate the revolutionary change that Immanuel Kant introduced into the history of philosophy by exploring his belief that the human mind, rather than the external world, is the center of the knowing process Explain Kant's philosophy by means of several different illustrations