Soren Kierkegaard, Otto Pfleiderer - 1887
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 09/05/2012

Otto Pfleiderer (1839-1908) was a German Protestant theologian who wrote The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of its History in 2 volumes in 1887. His sources include Practice in Christianity (Soren Kierkegaard, 1850) which had been translated into German by that time as well as the writings of Hans Brochner (1820-1875), who wrote "On Soren Kierkegaard's Activity as Religious Author" December 1, 1855. Brochner's writings are preserved in Thomas H. Croxall's book, Glimpses and impressions of Kierkegaard published 1959. This reading is taken from Chapter II -- The Half-Kantian and Neo-Kantian Philosophy of Religion p. 161ff