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The Feeling of Religious Longing and Passionate Rationality [PDF]

, 2014
What is the feeling of religious longing and how, if at all, can religious longing justify religious beliefs? Starting with an analogy between religious longing and basic physical needs and an analogy between religious longing and musical longing, I ...
Tietjen, Ruth Rebecca
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What Makes a Christian Life Alive? On Call and Creation in N.F.S. Grundtvig and Jean‐Louis Chrétien

Dialog, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 29-35, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT According to 19th‐century Danish theologian and poet N.F.S. Grundtvig, Christianity truly comes alive when it is freely expressed in the congregation through confession of faith, preaching, song, and praise. This article presents a contemporary systematic reading of Grundtvig's important essay, The Christian Signs of Life, alongside his hymn ...
Anders Skou Jørgensen
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Kierkegaard’s Lesson on Religious Conformism vs. the Current Mainstream Environmentalism

Philosophies
This paper aims to show how Kierkegaard’s attack upon Christendom still works today to contrast current forms of conformism disguised under the appearance of new secular religions.
Igor Tavilla
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 266-280, March 2026.
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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Loss of trust as disconnection in John Updike’s Trust me. [PDF]

, 2012
While the title of John Updike’s short-story collection, Trust Me (1987), and the theme of betrayed trust of the first story (“Trust Me”) offer a thematic coherence to the collection, it would be restrictive to read the stories through the simple ...
Duffy, Brian
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More Than One Encounter: Exploring the Second-Person Perspective and the In-Between

Open Philosophy
In this essay, I explore the notion of the encounter as a challenge to the second-person perspective. I do so by turning to Jacques Derrida’s account of the encounter with the associated notions of address, second-person perspective, otherness, and the ...
Hansen Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel
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The concept of ‘transcendence’ in modern Western philosophy and in twentieth century Hindu thought [PDF]

, 2016
‘Transcendence’ has been a key subject of Western philosophy of religion and history of ideas. The meaning of transcendence, however, has changed over time.
Sardella, Ferdinando
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Nurturing Digital Government Reform: Nuggets of Wisdom From a Global Frontrunner

Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 214-229, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Government reform initiatives increasingly incorporate significant digital elements. This article builds on successful, long‐term Danish experiences with digital government reform and offers “nuggets of wisdom” to policymakers, organisations, and countries wishing to advance such reform. In international surveys, Denmark is consistently ranked
Ulrik B. U. Roehl, Andreas Berggreen
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The Evolution of the Person in Care: Autonomy, Relationships and Nursing Practice

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
Brendan McCormack
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Can Kierkegaard Preach?

Idei, 2020
I will look at the work of Søren Kierkegaard as a preliminary case study. Accordingly, the specific question that will occupy us here is: “Can Kierkegaard Preach?” I mean for this question to be heard in two ways.
J. Aaron Simmons
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