What Can We Learn from Kierkegaard? (#136)

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Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Today my guest J. Aaron Simmons joins me to discuss Danish philosopher and theologian, Soren Kierkegaard. Dr. Simmons is an author, Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, and the current president of the Soren Kierkegaard Society (USA). Aaron says “Faith is risk with a direction” and summarizes Kierkegaard with a current application: “You’re human, don’t forget that, and God sees that as a good thing”. As most listeners know, Kierkegaard has been a significant figure for me personally. Tripp & Aaron's class: http://iheartkierkegaard.comAaron’s Papers “Religious but not Spiritual”: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/6/433/xml“Militant Liturgies: Practicing Christianity with Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Weil”: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/5/340/htmAaron’s TedX Talk “The Failure of Success”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4beiEp-xZ4Aaron’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtktPVW5IrLx0772vl8znWQ Pollution and the Death of Man: https://www.amazon.com/Pollution-Death-Man-Francis-Schaeffer/dp/143351947X Embracing Prodigals: https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Prodigals-Overcoming-Authoritative-Embodying/dp/1725264064/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16GX7ZVUIUPOC&dchild=1&keywords=embracing+prodigals&qid=1634500712&s=books&sprefix=embracing+pro%2Cstripbooks%2C180&sr=1-1David Foster Wallace, “This is Water”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMIAuthoritative vs. Nurturant Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-have-permission/id1448000113?i=1000525427433 Bible Truths Episode (with Heather Griffin):https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-have-permission/id1448000113?i=1000526264766Dan's new music project Havana Swim Club on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6CzaYsf8R…687fd1c987ee466eHavana Swim Club on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCkhsQydzvcAHT2d70dWZvjAAlbum Spotify pre-save: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/havana…b/havana-swim-clubFollow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKochFaith deconstruction resources: https://www.soyouredeconstructing.com/Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia@gmail.com -- he is accepting more work!)Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankochEmail about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.comYHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98Website: https://www.dankochwords.com/yhp.htmlJoin Dan's email list: https://www.dankochwords.com/Artwork by sprungle.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:36.4	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts. I want this show to be a
0:39.3	resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious
0:44.9	folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer, fate,
0:58.9	suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with pure intentions. I want to say that
1:05.4	you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously.
1:11.8	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian
1:17.1	spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways.
1:21.5	Thanks for listening.
1:25.4	My guest today is Aaron Simmons, J. Aaron Simmons in his academic career, and he is a philosopher.
1:35.2	He is a professor at Furman University, and he is the current president of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the USA.
1:43.7	He is working on a class with Trip Fuller of
1:48.0	Homebrewed Christianity on Kierkegaard, and that is the reason that we are talking today. But it's,
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