ABSTRACT
In Sören Kierkegaard och nutida religiöst tänkande, Torsten Bohlin discusses two main themes from Kierkegaard and evaluates these themes from the point of view of what he terms contemporary religious thought. The two themes from Kierkegaard that Bohlin brings into relation to contemporary religious thought are Kierkegaard's ideas on truth and subjectivity, and Kierkegaard's idea of the paradoxical and of Christianity as the absolute paradox. With regard to Kierkegaard's ideas on truth and subjectivity, Bohlin devotes much of his discussion to the question of the relation between what are termed the how and the what of faith. With regard to Kierkegaard's doctrine of the paradoxical, Bohlin argues that Kierkegaard's idea of Christianity as the absolute paradox is very problematic from the point of view of modern religious thought. Bohlin concludes his study by asserting that Kierkegaard's doctrine of the paradoxical belongs to the past. Bohlin's conclusion has provoked criticism from Kierkegaard scholars more sympathetic to Kierkegaard's theological presuppositions.
