KIERKEGAARD'S 'SICKNESS UNTO DEATH' AS A RESOURCE IN OUR SEARCH FOR PERSONAL AUTHENTICITY

Having transcended the mythical conception of time, the European philosophical thinking set on the trajectory of establishing subjecthood. The 'agape personalism' of Ocepek and Milbank (among others) ensued, building primarily on the emphasis on the individual and his relatedness to himself and to Other. The legacy of S. Kierkegaard and his strand of theological existentialism has been and may continue to be a valuable resource for developing the agape personalism in our striving to bring about an existential revolution on the inner-personal as well as inter-personal levels. This becomes most obvious upon reading his masterpiece in theological anthropology, The Sickness unto Death. Kierkegaard here grounds authentic subjectivity in a double relatedness of a human individual's self - as self relates to itself and as this relatedness relates to Other in faith.