Religious Experience in Kierkegaard's Existentialism

Abstract

The existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is one of the most prominent philosophers in the field of philosophy in general and the philosophy of religion in particular. Because of his own religious experience, and there are several influences that shaped his religious experience, including his influence on his father, who lived throughout his life reprimanding his conscience because of his blasphemy against the Creator, which had an impact on the personality of our philosopher. Kierkegaard described faith as the relationship between man and his Creator without submitting to the teachings of clerics the church. And his view of the church did not see anything but lies, falsehood and insignificance. And the materialistic tendency, and turning the worship of God into a mockery of Him. And his orientation was towards God, towards the Infinite in Himself... It is an orientation whose steps disturbed the words of the Church and the Christian theory at the time.