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Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Victor Eremita » August 31st, 2006, 12:50 pm

I'm aware that some of Lewis' contemporaries and friends were influenced by Kierkegaard, like Charles Williams (the translator to English of Kierkegaard), W.H. Auden (who compiled The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard), ... he must have been aware of Great Dane. But whether L read K is something I don't know.
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re: Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Leslie » August 31st, 2006, 5:28 pm

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re: Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Sven » August 31st, 2006, 7:36 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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re: Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Guest » September 2nd, 2006, 2:53 am

Yet he was not will to hear of Kierkegaard when first hearing of him by an enthusiatic friend, who also happened to mention Kierkegaard's spoiling of his engagement by portraying himself as an ogre.

"That's enough, the man was pathological," said C.S. Lewis.

"And he would hear no more," said his friend.

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re: Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Guest » September 17th, 2006, 11:56 am

it's a shame these two great Christian thinkers didn't have dialogue.
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re: Did C.S. Lewis read Soren Kierkegaard?

Postby Leslie » September 17th, 2006, 1:04 pm

Dialogue would be tricky, since Kierkegaard died before Lewis was born. :wink:
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Lewis had read Kierkegaard.

Postby iamseeker39 » January 27th, 2007, 8:50 pm

The Joyful Christian p. 103 - "I can't read Kierkegaard myself, but some people find him helpful." (referring to spiritural reading)
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