Comments on: Existentialism: How it has affected modern Christianity

By: gamnot27

gamnot27 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:52:29 +0000

Paul Tillich used the Ontological Polarity: Form and Dynamics in his Systematic Theology. Althought I do not support his Theology, I was thinking that The two Atheistic Philosphers of recent times who had much in common Nietzche and Ayn Ryan, but were opposite in other ways could be looked at in this way:

Nietzche was obssessing on life dynamics at the expense of form and Ayn Ryan was doing the opposite; obsessing on reason, structure, logic at the expense of life dynamics. Could this be two forms of idolatry?

Nietzche’s Dionysis and and The Greek god Apollo were being worship at the same time in ancient Greek. It looks a kind of polarization between the two Ontological Polarities.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:55:34 +0000

David,

So when I think I know something I do truly know it, but only in a subjective and experiential sense. However, how do you know that when I know something I truly know it even though I can’t know anything?

You must turn to an absolute in order to say that knowledge is subjective. You have to make an absolute epistemological statement to say there is no epistemology; that you know absolutely that all knowledge is subjective.

Hence why existentialism fails; self-refutation.

By: David Valencia

David Valencia — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:45:37 +0000

Unless you are existential…you are in denial of reality, whatever you think reality is, which it is not.
You live with the tension of thinking you know when you really don’t know and when you think you know it ends up being what you think you know, which is limited because it is your own experience, which might be true, but you can’t really know if you are right.
You chose a platform by which to live and have a criteria for explaining whatever.
You give the Scriptures the validity that will give you the platform from which to make meaningful statements about what you believe is true. The existential tension has always been real to the great thinkers, like Pascal, , Ecclesiastes, Augustine, etc.