As it pertains to Christianity, Kierkegaard's thought was instrumental in defining a way of being in the world that is characterized by an insistence on an individual and deeply personal experience leading to salvation. Later Existentialists described man as having no essence but only existence. Existentialism can best be described as a mood within philosophy that emphasizes the concrete and particular existence of man in the world. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was an Existentialist, although that description was applied to his thought posthumously. Kierkegaard stands squarely in the Christian tradition of faith in Jesus Christ as the only means of personal salvation. An attempt will also be made to reconcile the struggle for Truth, found in both of these traditions, as a necessary component of coming into contact with Sacred Power, contact that is personal, subjective in nature, and highly passionate. An endeavor will be made to show how Kierkegaard's religious person is similar in som e ways to the Bodhisattva ideal. And what it means to be an authentic religious person, compared and contrasted with the Bodhisattva path and series of perfections leading to enlightenment found in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism.
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