Doctrines and Undecidability: Kierkegaard on the Indeterminacy of Christian Teachings
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Abstract
Abstract: Many expositors of Kierkegaard have argued that the elusiveness of his language precludes the determinacy of meaning that Christian doctrines require. However, this misunderstands the way that doctrinal motifs function in his literature. Kierkegaard typically affirms two apparently contradictory doctrinal themes without theoretically synthesizing them. For example, he both ascribes absolute agency to God in the matter of salvation and also urges his readers to assume responsibility for their own salvation. Rather than the relation of divine and human agencies, Kierkegaard exhibits in his writings that the assumption of responsibility for oneself and absolute reliance upon God can both inform a single life. Such dialectically paired doctrines cannot possibly provide any closure of meaning. The tensions among them make it impossible to definitively map out their interconnections in an abstract system. The Christian life, informed by doctrinal teachings, is open ended and fraught with risk.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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