Murray Rae

• PhD
• University of Otago

This companion explores Søren Kierkegaard’s importance as a critical and constructive theological thinker, offering a comprehensive reading of his work through a distinctly theological lens, including interpretative concerns, his approach to specific doctrines, and theological trajectories for thinking beyond his work. Beginning with essays on key...

The account of his own authorship provided by Kierkegaard in The Point of View for My Work as an Author has often been greeted with skepticism. Inconsistencies within the work have led some commentators to regard the work as a fabrication, and many have challenged the plausibility of Kierkegaard's claim that his whole literary endeavour was a relig...

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place, author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in the construction of our built envir...

Kierkegaard: Exposition and Critique. By Daphne Hampson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi + 344 pages. $28.00 (paper). - Volume 42 Issue 2 - Murray Rae

According to MacIntyre (2007, 216), human beings are “story-telling animal[s] ... [however] the key question ... is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”. This question is increasingly important as scholars and practit...

For free access to e-print: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JTjghrrn8IhDjjsfFfYN/full ABSTRACT Recognizing how stories connect us with the built environment is a critical component in understanding how our socio-cultural identities are contextualized. In this paper, narrative is proposed as a conceptual link between wide-ranging typologies of co...

Fascination with the interplay of people and place inspired the editors to bring together New Zealanders from differing backgrounds and disciplines to explore come of the stories and sites of conflict and change to be found amongst our sacred, historic, rural, urban and coastal landscapes. http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/MakingOurPlace.html

The theology of salvation stands at the heart of the Christian faith. Very often the structure of Christian salvation is seen in terms of a single theme, such as atonement for sins, forgiveness, liberation or friendship with God. It is easy to reduce soteriology to a matter of merely personal experience, or to see salvation as just a solution to a...

This article offers some theological reflections on a recent episode in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in which a Maori community housing an alleged terrorist network was subjected to a police raid. Many innocent people, including children, were caught up in the raid thus bringing to mind other episodes in New Zealand's history in which Maori have been sub...

8016 Background: TheDNA repair enzyme O ⁶ -Alkylguanine Alkyltransferase (AGT) directly reverses the O ⁶ -methylguanine (O ⁶ -MeG) base lesion induced by treatment with DTIC. Depletion of AGT using O ⁶ -MeG analogs enhances the cytotoxicity of DTIC in preclinical models and in early phase trials of O ⁶ -Benzylguanine. Lomeguatrib (Patrin, PN) is an...

Book InformationLove's Grateful Striving. A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love. By M. Jamie Ferreira. Oxford University Press. New York. 2001. Pp. xi + 316. £35, 0 19 513025 1.

Discussion of the doctrine of atonement in recent years has drawn attention to the metaphorical nature of the traditional language of atonement. Justice, victory and sacrifice are metaphors used extensively in the tradition to bear witness to the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This article considers whether there might be other metaphors also capab...

This paper argues that Kierkegaard's defence of Abraham is in the first instance a polemic against the notion that the demands of faith are co-terminous with the best insights of practical reason. It is further argued that while no justification of Abraham's action at Mount Moriah may be offered, he is nevertheless to be admired for trusting in God...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1995.

Discussions of the relationship between Christian faith and history in the work of S0ren Kierkegaard are commonplace among commentators upon the Danish thinker's work, especially, of course, in relation to the works pseudonymously attributed to Johannes Climacus. It is generally assumed in such discussions that Climacus, and indeed Kierkegaard hims...