Through hermeneutics of suspicion to a rediscovery of faith: Kierkegaard’s pamphlet ”What Christ Judges of Official Christianity” in relation to Ricœur’s ”Religion, Atheism and Faith”

Iben Damgaard

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Through hermeneutics of suspicion to a rediscovery of faith: Kierkegaard’s pamphlet ”What Christ Judges of Official Christianity” in relation to Ricœur’s ”Religion, Atheism and Faith”

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Ricœur argued that the critique of religion developed by the three modern masters of a hermeneutics of suspicion–Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud–is liberating insofar as it makes possible a mature faith. In the first part of the article, I explore this issue in relation to Kierkegaard. In the second part of the article, I discuss how Kierkegaard uses a biblical critique of religion, particularly the figure of the prophet, in his final attack on the church in his pamphlet “What Christ Judges of Official Christianity”. Through my investigation of the role of a hermeneutics of suspicion in Kierkegaard’s rediscovery of faith, I aim to question Ricœur’s dichotomy between an external, atheistic hermeneutics of suspicion versus an internal hermeneutics of faith.

Original language	English
Journal	Studia Theologica
Volume	72
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	198-216
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0039-338X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0039338X.2018.1451774
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2018

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Through hermeneutics of suspicion to a rediscovery of faith: Kierkegaard’s pamphlet ”What Christ Judges of Official Christianity” in relation to Ricœur’s ”Religion, Atheism and Faith”

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