Heidegger’s Being and Time and Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death as Hermeneutic to Paul’s Epistles
- Philosophy
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
Dive into a profound exploration of human existence through the philosophical and theological insights of Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and St. Paul. This book bridges the existential concepts of Dasein and soma with the spiritual dimensions of Paul's epistles, revealing the interplay between individual authenticity, interdependent coexistence, and the inevitability of death. By examining conscience, guilt, and temporality of time, this book offers a unique perspective on how we understand ourselves and relate to others. The timeless questions posed by these thinkers can illuminate the path to finding meaning and projecting the possibility of future being beyond the confines of mortality. This work is not just an academic study but an invitation to experience and interpret life through a richer philosophical and theological lens.
Endorsements (4)
“Hwang bridges existential philosophy and Pauline theology, offering a profound hermeneutic of conscience, authenticity, and human existence. By synthesizing Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Paul, he reveals how external voices of conscience help individuals reclaim authentic selfhood amid everydayness. Exploring anxiety and emptiness, linking Western and Eastern thought with psychological insights, this study illuminates transformative encounters and future-oriented existence. An invaluable resource for those exploring philosophy, theology, and human experience.”
“Dr. Hwang offers a profound inquiry into existential and theological questions from the perspective of hermeneutic phenomenology. By integrating the works of Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Paul with Fa-tsang’s Huayen Buddhist thought, this book successfully bridges philosophical and religious perspectives on conscience, death, and God. Such a comparative analysis by Dr. Hwang makes this work an outstanding contribution to the contemporary discussions of faith, ethics, and human existence.”
“Many readers know Martin Heidegger and Søren Kierkegaard by reductive stereotypes: one as a brilliant scholar swept into German nationalism of the 1930s, the other as a moody Scandinavian who provided disaffected modern youth with the buzzword ‘existentialism.’ Both of these summaries are correct—but neither tells how they relate to one of the Bible’s most serious thinkers, St. Paul, and the truths the three together can provide.”
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