noun
Usage: usually capitalized C
: a form of existentialism stressing subjective aspects of the human person considered as a creature of God ; especially : such a theory emphasizing (1) the natural desire of the creature to seek his creator (as in the philosophers and thinkers Augustine, Pascal, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Gabriel Marcel) or (2) the distance between guilty man and omnipotent God (as in Kierkegaard and the dialectical or crisis theology of Karl Barth and Emil Brunner) — called also respectively (1) Catholic existentialism (2) Protestant existentialism