Interview Med Johannes Sløk

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“…Lukas Kirke i Århus -og hvor han jo altså af gode grunde selv praedikede med jaevne mellemrum. 1 Praedikerne blev i 1998 udgivet under den praecise titel Praedikener (Sløk 1998), og er saerligt blevet gjort til genstand for kritisk granskning af David .…”

Are Christian politics possible? A Kierkegaardian perspective

“…At the bottom and ultimately, life is nothing at all; it is empty, and everything is infinitely trivial, the one thing no better than the other." 45 Judge William argues that "every esthetic view of life is despair, and that everyone who lives esthetically is in despair, whether he knows it or not. But when one knows this, and you certainly do know it, then a higher form of existence is an imperative requirement."…”

“…He is in a very extreme sense an individualist." 51 Individualist here is not a positive term like Kierkegaard's "the single individual." Hence, the esthetes can form a political party, a fraternity, but they would only be motivated by their selfish desires.…”

The Struggle over Kierkegaard

“…Against this interpretation of Kierkegaard, Sløk claimed in a book on The Anthropology of Kierkegaard (published in German in 1954) 16 and in some articles in 1959 that Kierkegaard is not only speaking about a dying away from immediacy but also about a return to human existence in a "double movement" between finitude and eternity. The return to daily life in a belief in God means that the concrete individual life that has no worth in immediacy becomes qualified as a responsible life.…”

“…But as an individual, as that specific person, you are nonrecurring and therefore irreplaceable." 22 With this idea, Sløk says, the philosophy of Kierkegaard becomes existential. And when Kierkegaard speaks about God, it is not as a special power in nature, however large it might be, but as the existential power that grants the particular consciousness its absolute validity.…”