<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>existentialism Archives - Stephen Barkley</title> <atom:link href="https://stephenbarkley.com/tag/existentialism/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/tag/existentialism/</link> <description>Teacher | Writer | Practical Theologian</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 19:52:21 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">5343192</site> <item> <title>The Way of Response | Martin Buber</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2024/07/29/the-way-of-response-martin-buber/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2024/07/29/the-way-of-response-martin-buber/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:30:23 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Buber]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nahum N. Glatzer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Schocken Books]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=13943</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I should have known better—things are better in context. Still, while browsing the religious corner of Attic Books in London, I couldn’t resist picking up what the St. Louis Post Dispatch called “The essential Buber.” The book is a greatest hits collection of Buber’s best writing, organized into eight neat categories. And they are great. [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2024/07/29/the-way-of-response-martin-buber/">The Way of Response | Martin Buber</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2024/07/29/the-way-of-response-martin-buber/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">13943</post-id> </item> <item> <title>On the Boundary | Paul Tillich</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/08/23/on-the-boundary-paul-tillich/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/08/23/on-the-boundary-paul-tillich/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 11:30:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[autobiography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Scribner's Sons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Tillich]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=11206</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Paul Tillich (1886–1965) is an interesting mix of Existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian. Having already read his Dynamics of Faith and his most famous work, The Courage to Be, I was excited to get an inside look at Tillich from this brief autobiography. Tillich presents himself as a man who exists on the boundary. I [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/08/23/on-the-boundary-paul-tillich/">On the Boundary | Paul Tillich</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/08/23/on-the-boundary-paul-tillich/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">11206</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Remarkable Existentialists | Michael Allen Fox</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/06/14/the-remarkable-existentialists-michael-allen-fox/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/06/14/the-remarkable-existentialists-michael-allen-fox/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2021 11:30:35 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[De Beauvoir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Heidegger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kierkegaard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Allen Fox]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nietzsche]]></category> <category><![CDATA[phenomenology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Prometheus Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sartre]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=11114</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Existentialism is a unique type of philosophy. Prototypically Postmodern, Existentialism is fragmented and rebellious, concerned with authenticity and freedom. Michael Allen Fox has written a reliable guide to Existentialism by focusing on the key figures of the movement. Fox is professor emeritus of philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and it shows. The Remarkable [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/06/14/the-remarkable-existentialists-michael-allen-fox/">The Remarkable Existentialists | Michael Allen Fox</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/06/14/the-remarkable-existentialists-michael-allen-fox/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">11114</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Prayer and Modern Man | Jacques Ellul</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/04/05/prayer-and-modern-man-jacques-ellul/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/04/05/prayer-and-modern-man-jacques-ellul/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 11:30:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jacques Ellul]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seabury]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=11045</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This is not a book of piety. The reader will not find recommendations or advice about how to pray well, or any examples. I am not trying to guide him in his prayer, or provide him with a prayer book. I am too deeply convinced that prayer is an act involving the whole person, a [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/04/05/prayer-and-modern-man-jacques-ellul/">Prayer and Modern Man | Jacques Ellul</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2021/04/05/prayer-and-modern-man-jacques-ellul/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">11045</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Courage to Be | Paul Tillich</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/12/23/the-courage-to-be-paul-tillich/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/12/23/the-courage-to-be-paul-tillich/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[despair]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[God above God]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Tillich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[self-affirmation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yale University Press]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=10412</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This book is almost 70 years old. To set the stage, Paul Tillich wrote while Camus, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger were de rigueur. The French Postmodernists—Derrida, Lyotard, and Focault—had not yet upended the scene. Despite its context, The Courage to Be has a staying power evidenced by its third printing in 2014. There must be [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/12/23/the-courage-to-be-paul-tillich/">The Courage to Be | Paul Tillich</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/12/23/the-courage-to-be-paul-tillich/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">10412</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/07/01/metamorphosis-franz-kafka/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/07/01/metamorphosis-franz-kafka/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:30:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[absurdism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arcturus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Franz Kafka]]></category> <category><![CDATA[metamorphosis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[surrealism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://stephenbarkley.com/?p=10171</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Imagine what life would be like if you woke up in the morning with a different body. Not just any body, either—that of “a kind of giant bug” (15). Would you go to work? How would you communicate with your family? What would happen next? These are the issues Franz Kafka explores in this novella. [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/07/01/metamorphosis-franz-kafka/">Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2019/07/01/metamorphosis-franz-kafka/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">10171</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Christian Existentialist | Bernard Häring</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/04/03/christian-existentialist-bernard-haring/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/04/03/christian-existentialist-bernard-haring/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:30:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernard Häring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conscience]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deems Lectures]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[morality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York University Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prudence]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=8503</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This book made me nervous. While I have been formed intellectually by many themes of existentialism (see my review of The Committed Self), the existential emphasis on individualism is troublesome, theologically. The Christian is never a mere individual, but a member of an interdependent body with Christ at the head holding his body (along with the whole [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/04/03/christian-existentialist-bernard-haring/">The Christian Existentialist | Bernard Häring</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/04/03/christian-existentialist-bernard-haring/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8503</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Prophetic Faith | Martin Buber</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/02/17/prophetic-faith-martin-buber-2/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/02/17/prophetic-faith-martin-buber-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Weekend Wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Buber]]></category> <category><![CDATA[prophets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Prophetic Faith]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=8357</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The world of prophetic faith is in fact historic reality, seen in the bold and penetrating glance of the man who dares to believe. — Buber, Prophetic Faith, 167.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/02/17/prophetic-faith-martin-buber-2/">Prophetic Faith | Martin Buber</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2017/02/17/prophetic-faith-martin-buber-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8357</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/12/19/thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/12/19/thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barns & Noble]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category> <category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=8335</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a difficult book to read. In fact, literary critic like Harold Bloom called it "unreadable"! Why, then is it one of Nietzsche's most famous works? Why is it reprinted generation after generation? What made it "the book of choice" (345) for German soldiers on the battlefield? Zarathustra is the story of [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/12/19/thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche/">Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/12/19/thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">8335</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Buber | Vermes</title> <link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/05/23/buber-vermes/</link> <comments>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/05/23/buber-vermes/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 11:30:11 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grove Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Buber]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pamela Vermes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://stephenbarkley.com/?p=7979</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>To man the world is twofold, in accordance with his twofold attitude. The attitude of man is twofold, in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks. The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words. The one primary word is the combination I-Thou. The other primary word is the [...]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/05/23/buber-vermes/">Buber | Vermes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://stephenbarkley.com">Stephen Barkley</a>.</p> ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://stephenbarkley.com/2016/05/23/buber-vermes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">7979</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>