Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

Carolyn Mackie, resources for resistance

Episode Summary

Carolyn Mackie, researcher and academic, is an expert on the connections between Incarnation and anthropology in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. She joins the Tent to discuss one of her latest published pieces: an exploration of how Kierkegaard's attack on 19th c. Danish Christendom and the post-holocaust writing of the German Hannah Arendt can help us resist the populist enthusiasms of our present evil age.

Episode Notes

Carolyn Mackie, researcher and academic, is an expert on the connections between Incarnation and anthropology in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard. She joins the Tent to discuss one of her latest published pieces: an exploration of how Kierkegaard's attack on 19th c. Danish Christendom and the post-holocaust writing of the German Hannah Arendt can help us resist the populist enthusiasms of our present evil age.

More about Carolyn and samples of her writing can be found HERE

Carolyn's essay on Arendt and Kierkegaard can be downloaded HERE

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