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    Kierkegaard’s Strong Anti-Rationalism: Offense as a Propaedeutic to Faith
    with Ryan Kemp
    Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 27 (1): 193-214. 2022.
    In a now classic paper, Karen Carr argues that Kierkegaard is a religious “anti-rationalist”: He holds that reason and religious truth exist in necessary tension with one another. Carr maintains that this antagonism is not a matter of the logical incoherence of Christianity, but rather the fact that genuine submission to Christ precludes approaching him through demonstration. In this essay, we argue that while Kierkegaard is in fact an anti-rationalist, the literature has failed to appreciate th…Read more