A Companion to Kierkegaard by Stewart Jon;

Author:Stewart, Jon; [Stewart, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

16.3 Conclusion

As has been seen, Kierkegaard’s Catholic reception was diverse. At times critical, at times appreciative, it almost always indicated a genuine desire to learn from the great Danish author. Moreover, the tendencies discussed here can be found in a host of other Catholic thinkers, including (but hardly limited to) Thomist scholar Cornelio Fabro, monk and activist Thomas Merton, and advocate for Jewish-Catholic reconciliation Johannes Oesterreicher.

To trace Kierkegaard’s influence on Catholicism, then, is not a matter of idle curiosity. Rather, it speaks to the ongoing development of the Catholic tradition, not to mention Kierkegaard’s own standing as one of modernity’s great thinkers. Indeed, with this in mind, it may be that nothing discloses the importance of the topic quite so well as the fact that the recently canonized Pope Saint John Paul II mentions Kierkegaard in his 1998 encyclical, Fides et Ratio. It is not a weighty reference, but what is remarkable (and perhaps surprising) is the company with which he associates Kierkegaard—St. Paul, Pascal, and, yes, even the Fathers of the Catholic church.

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