DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-K056-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 23, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/nygren-anders-1890-1978/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 23, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/nygren-anders-1890-1978/v-1
Article Summary
Nygren hoped to recover the uniqueness of Christianity from the impurities introduced by the attempts of nineteenth-century liberal theology to free it from metaphysical speculation and confessional dogmatism. He aimed to do this by grounding all religion in an analytic philosophy of religion which would enable him to stress the objective character of Christian theology in contrast to the arbitrariness of confessional theology. He achieved international influence by his claim in Agapē and Eros (1930–6) that the uniqueness of Christianity is love in the sense of agapē, as opposed to Platonic eros.
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Allen, Diogenes. Nygren, Anders (1890–1978), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-K056-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/nygren-anders-1890-1978/v-1.
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Allen, Diogenes. Nygren, Anders (1890–1978), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-K056-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/nygren-anders-1890-1978/v-1.
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