Augustine and Kierkegaard

Kim Paffenroth; John Doody; Helene Tallon Russell

doi:10.5771/9781498561853

Summary

This volume is a continuation of our series exploring Saint Augustine’s influence on later thought, this time bringing the fifth century bishop into dialogue with 19th century philosopher, theologian, social critic, and originator of Existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard. The connections, contrasts, and sometimes surprising similarities of their thought are uncovered and analyzed in topics such as exile and pilgrimage, time and restlessness, inwardness and the church, as well as suffering, evil, and humility. The implications of this analysis are profound and far-reaching for theology, ecclesiology, and ethics.

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Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6184-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6185-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 322
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgment No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. Augustine No access
  2. An Excursus On No access
  3. Kierkegaard No access
  4. An Excursus On No access
  5. The Sickness Unto Death No access
  6. Augustine And Kierkegaard No access
  7. Notes No access
2. 1. Augustine No access
  2. Kierkegaard No access
  3. Conclusion: An Augustinian Legacy? No access
  4. Notes No access
3. 1. Evil: Saint Augustine And Early Augustinianism No access
  2. The Privation Thesis No access
  3. The Agency Thesis No access
  4. The Persistence Thesis No access
  5. Two Concerns For Kierkegaard On The Augustinian Agency Thesis No access
  6. The Challenge Of Ethical Rigorism No access
  7. Avoiding Pelagianism No access
  8. The Persistence Thesis Reconsidered No access
  9. Adam’s Co-extensional Identity No access
  10. The Qualitative Leap No access
  11. Spirit, Ignorance, And Anxiety No access
  12. The Nature Of Evil: Privation And Despair No access
  13. Conclusion No access
  14. Notes No access
4. 1. Temptation In A Culture Of Seduction No access
  2. Confessing Temptation No access
  3. The Confessions And Temptations Of Providence No access
  4. Confessing Seduction No access
  5. The Spiritual Trial Of Divine Seduction No access
  6. Conclusion: The Spiritual Trial Of The Confessing Self No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. The Standard View Of Augustine And Kierkegaard’s Approaches To Time No access
  2. Augustine’s Approach To Time And Kierkegaard’s Corrective No access
  3. Comparing Augustine And Kierkegaard’s Accounts No access
  4. Edifying Implications Of Augustine And Kierkegaard’s Approaches To Time No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Augustine: Faith Seeking Understanding No access
  2. Kierkegaard: Faith Surrendering Understanding No access
  3. Conclusion: A Restlessness Better Than Rest No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Delimiting A Conversation No access
  2. Augustine, Kierkegaard, And Sacramental Teleology No access
  3. Selfhood-formation In The No access
  4. Augustine’s Love Takes A Journey No access
  5. The Personal Narrative No access
  6. The Cosmic Narrative No access
  7. The Heart Of It All No access
  8. Kierkegaard’s Stages Of Desire No access
  9. Aesthetic Desires, Ethical Desires, Religious Desires No access
  10. Conclusion: Receiving The World As A Gift No access
  11. Notes No access
2. 1. We Are Lovers: The Relational Self No access
  2. Sensual Beauty No access
  3. Relating To Sensuous Beauty No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. The Margins Of Solitude No access
  2. The Question Of The Sufferer No access
  3. Contemporaneousness And Silence No access
  4. The Truth That Changes No access
  5. Note No access
2. 1. Notes No access
3. 1. Kierkegaard’s Own Pilgrimage No access
  2. Augustine And The Pilgrimage Theme No access
  3. The Theme Of Pilgrimage In Kierkegaard’s Writings No access
  4. Pilgrimage And ‘becoming’ No access
  5. Unique And Different Perspectives On Pilgrimage No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. The Convergences Of Augustine And Kierkegaard No access
  2. Augustine And Kierkegaard’s Ecclesial Divergence No access
  3. Augustine And The Church As Nurturing Mother No access
  4. Kierkegaard And The Church As Socratic Gadfly No access
  5. Conclusion: Divergent Paths To Love No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. And Its Kierkegaard No access
  2. Macintyre’s Augustine No access
  3. Kierkegaard And Macintyre’s Augustine No access
  4. What Is Humility? No access
  5. Why Humility Matters? No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Augustine’s Views On Martyrdom And Persecution No access
  2. Kierkegaard’s Views On Martyrdom And Persecution No access
  3. Augustine And Kierkegaard On Polite Persecution No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 297 - 312
Index No access Pages 313 - 318
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 319 - 322