Wolfhart Pannenberg

  The following two works,   Purity of Heart  and   Works of Love,   ought to have placed Kierkegaard in the ranks of classic devotional works.               In 1846, Kierkegaard published  Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing  as part of the volume,  Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits.  He wrote it in his name. He dedicated it “that solitary individual.”              He wrote a brief “Preface.”             Chapter 1 has the title, “Introduction: Man and the Eternal.” He quotes from Ecclesiastes 3:11, “God made all things beautiful in his time; also he hath set eternity within man’s heart.” Eternity must be able to exist within us. A discussion of it must have a different ring. Something shall always have its time. For some people, repentance came late. Outgrowing the eternal is to fall away from God.             Chapter 2 has the title, “Remorse, Repentance, Confession: Eternity’s Emissaries to Man.” Some things should always be done. Some things should never have their time. Ther

Existentialism Essay Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret. [1] The one thing your friends will never forgive you is your happiness. - Albert Camus It is Europe’s mystery that life is no longer loved. – Albert Camus   This essay on existentialism will explore the role it might play in the formation of a theological approach to humanity, clarify the place philosophy and science in relation to any notion of divine revelation, explore the strangeness of the kerygma/gospel to modern ears, gain clarity into the act of faith, and even re-examine my view of Jewish apocalyptic and eschatology and their continuing relevance for theology and church today. I take Heidegger in  Being and Time  as providing the pattern of existential philosophy. However, the family of existential philosophers do not all think alike, and I will broaden our understanding of the possibilities within existentialism by consideration of other authors, such as Kierke