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    Kierkegaard's Postscript in Light of Fear and Trembling: Eschatological Faith
    Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 64 (2/4): 879-908. 2008.
    There is a single unified conception of religious faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Concluding Unscientific Postscript: existential faith is absolute trust in an eschatological promise, i.e. a miraculous realization of ethical ideals that is beyond all human power to accomplish or even predict. Faith in this sense has the precondition of "infinite resignation," which is a purified state of ethical willing in which the agent accepts her/his own inability to actualize the ethical, outw…Read more
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    Eschatological Ultimacy and the Best Possible Hereafter
    Ultimate Reality and Meaning 25 (1): 36-65. 2002.
    This paper argues that the eschatological dimension of religion is distinct from other fundamental dimensions, including moral grounding, the ontological basis of reality, and the constitution of persons. It responds in particular to Tibor Horvath's conception of the category of ultimate reality. It also argues that eschatological hereafters imply something akin to an higher-time A-series, in that the hereafter can be conceived as a temporal order beyond currently existing time.