David J. Gouwens

Jun 11, 2024 | mdpi.com | D. M. Sc. Thune. Jens J |David J. Gouwens

1. IntroductionSøren Kierkegaard holds a pivotal place in philosophical approaches to human existence and especially in philosophical approaches to religion. He created a strikingly original approach to understanding religious existence, a descriptive approach in which the philosopher’s first goal is to provide a careful, often sympathetic, account of “subjective” religious existence in its own terms.