Herbert K. Russell

Heidegger’s Being and Time and Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death as Hermeneutic to Paul’s Epistles

Philosophy

“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.”