Editing Christian existentialism (section)

==Notable Christian existentialists==
In addition to [[Søren Kierkegaard]], Christian existentialists include German Protestant theologians [[Paul Tillich]], and [[Rudolf Bultmann]], American existential psychologist [[Rollo May]] (who introduced much of Tillich's thought to a general American readership), British Anglican theologian [[John Macquarrie]], American philosopher [[Clifford Williams (academic)|Clifford Williams]], French Catholic philosophers [[Maurice Blondel]], [[Gabriel Marcel]], [[Louis Lavelle]], [[Emmanuel Mounier]], [[Jacques Maritain]] and [[Pierre Boutang]] and French Protestant [[Paul Ricœur]], German philosopher [[Karl Jaspers]], Spanish philosopher [[Miguel de Unamuno]], Russian philosophers [[Nikolai Berdyaev]] and [[Lev Shestov]], and Greek Orthodoxy philosopher [[Christos Yannaras]]. [[Karl Barth]] added to Kierkegaard's ideas the notion that existential despair leads an individual to an awareness of God's infinite nature. Russian author [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] could be placed within the tradition of Christian existentialism.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} Walker Percy, an American author from the twentieth century, gave Christian existentialist critique of contemporary society. "Walker Percy: Prophetic, Existentialist, Catholic Storyteller" (New Connections) by Rev. Robert E. Lauder (Author)

The roots of existentialism have been traced back as far as [[Augustine of Hippo]].<ref>Gordon R. Lewis (Winter 1965). [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bets/vol08/8-1_lewis.pdf "Augustine and Existentialism"]. ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' 8,1, pp. 13–22.</ref><ref>Michial Farmer (6 July 2010). [http://www.christianhumanist.org/chb/a-primer-on-religious-existentialism-pt-4-augustine/ "A Primer on Religious Existentialism, Pt. 4: Augustine"]. christianhumanist.org</ref><ref>Craig J. N. de Paulo, ed. (2006). ''The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of An Augustinian Phenomenology''. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.</ref> Some of the most striking passages in [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]]'s ''[[Pensées]]'', including the famous section on the [[Pascal's Wager|Wager]], deal with existentialist themes.<ref>Desmond Clarke (2011). [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal/ "Blaise Pascal"], ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]''.</ref><ref>Clifford Williams (July 3, 2005). [http://www.cliffordwilliams.net/pascal "Pascal"]. cliffordwilliams.net</ref><ref>Michial Farmer (20 July 2010). [http://www.christianhumanist.org/chb/a-primer-on-religious-existentialism-pt-5-blaise-pascal/ "A Primer on Religious Existentialism, Pt. 5: Blaise Pascal"]. christianhumanist.org</ref><ref>Michial Farmer (27 July 2010). [http://www.christianhumanist.org/chb/a-primer-on-religious-existentialism-pt-6-apologetics/ "A Primer on Religious Existentialism, Pt. 6: Apologetics"]. christianhumanist.org</ref> [[Jacques Maritain]], in ''Existence and the Existent: An Essay on Christian Existentialism'',<ref>Jacques Maritain (1947). ''Existence and the Existent: An Essay on Christian Existentialism'' (''Court traité de l'existence et de l'existent''), translated by Lewis Galantiere and Gerald B. Phelan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948.</ref> finds the core of true existentialism in the thought of [[Thomas Aquinas]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}