Danish Golden Age StudiesVolume 2
Positivity and DialecticA Study of the Theological Method of Hans Lassen Martensen
Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel 2007. xviii+246pp. ISBN 87-7876-500-5.
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This work has both an intrinsic
and an extrinsic thesis. The setting is within the
broader context of the study of the thought of Kierkegaard. The
extrinsic thesis is that the work of Kierkegaard is essentially
polemical in character and cannot be understood without taking
into account the highly specific nature of his polemics against
Danish Hegelianism. The special target of these polemics is the
attempts of the Danish theologian, Hans Lassen Martensen
(1808-1884) to bend the Hegelian philosophical method to his own
theological purposes.
The intrinsic thesis is that Martensen’s development is almost
entirely within the lines of a form of theological intuitionism
to which his use of Hegel bears only an external relation. Hence,
if it is supposedly Hegelianism which Kierkegaard attacks in
the writings of Martensen, it is a highly modified and atypical
form of it. |
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