Merold Westphal’s existential theology as the development ideas of Soren Kierkegaard in age of Postmodern

Abstract

Serhii Shevchenko Merold Westphal’s existential theology as the development ideas of Soren Kierkegaard in age of Postmodern. The article reveals the problem of Merold Westphal’s understanding the specific of S. Kierkegaard’s religious existentialism. To analysed the basic statement of the books by M. Westphal «Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1996). It was studied thoroughly the problem of explication of S. Kierkegaard’s ethical and religious ideas in the post-existential and postmodern context. To investigate the phenomenon of «religiousness “C”», introduced by M. Westphal’s in the modern existential phenomenology of religion.

Keywords

• екзистенціальна теологія
• «постекзистенціалістська етика»
• «Релігійність “С”»
• християнство
• «сократівський парадокс»
• «християнський парадокс»