ABSTRACT
In Soren Kierkegaard's Vision of the Incarnation, Murray Rae explores Kierkegaard's and Johannes Climacus' engagement with the question of how the truth is learned. Focusing on Philosophical Fragments, Rae considers the theological implications of the account of faith that Climacus advances as an alternative to the Socratic way of knowing: an alternative to a way of knowing which presupposes that the truth is inherent within the mind of the knower. In particular, Rae pays close attention to Kierkegaard's understanding of what it means for a person to relate to the truth that is disclosed in and through the incarnation of God, in the historical person of Jesus Christ. Kierkegaard's Vision of the Incarnation stands as one of the foremost expositions of Kierkegaard as a theologian. In view of the logic of conversion that Climacus proposes, Rae makes it the task of his study "to contrast the counsel of Kierkegaard with the epistemological recommendations of both modernity and post-modernity."
