"Christian scholarship is the human race's prodigious invention to defend itself against the New Testament, to enusre that one can continue to be a Christian without letting the New Testament come too close." (Kierkegaard 1975: 270)
May this never be said of this blog.
4 comments:
Great quote. Love the Dane - so quotable.
Yeah, I've only just stumbled across him and know very little about him. Richard Bauckham, in his James commentary likes to think that Kierkegaard were alive today he'd expand it to:
"Biblical scholarship is the human race's prodigious invention to defend itself against the New Testament, to ensue that one can continue to be a Christian without letting the New Testament come too close, or to ensure that one can continue not to be a Christian by not letting the New Testament come too close"
- Bauckham, James, p 2.
Nice addition.
Kierkegaard is really worth getting into, though it does take some time and effort - he's not always easy or straightforward, since he usually writes using different voices and you can't just identify what one of his characters says with what he thinks.
Cool. Where would be a good place to start?
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