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Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom
An Upbuilding Antinomy
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2023
Summary
Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship exhibits two different trajectories concerning the relation of responsible human agency to sovereign divine agency: one trajectory stresses free human striving, while the other trajectory emphasizes the dominance of divine agency. The first theme led to the view of Kierkegaard as the champion of autonomous existential “leaps,” while the second led to the construal of Kierkegaard as a devout Lutheran who trusted absolutely in God’s gracious governance. Lee C. Barrett argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant’s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life, making use of literary strategies to foster the different passions and dispositions that are associated with the themes of human responsibility and divine governance. Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy offers an incisive account of what makes Kierkegaard’s conception of theology as a matter of edification rather than speculation so distinctive and enduringly worthwhile.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66691-492-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1493-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Sigla for Kierkegaard’s Works No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Kierkegaard’s Contentious Philosophical Background No access Pages 13 - 38
Kierkegaard’s Tensive Theological Background No access Pages 39 - 50
Kierkegaard and the Later Grace/Free-Will Debates No access Pages 51 - 68
Kierkegaard’s Unconventional Practice of Theology No access Pages 69 - 92
Active Leaping and Gracious Receiving in Philosophical Fragments No access Pages 93 - 104
Concluding Unscientific Postscript and the Truth and Untruth of Subjectivity No access Pages 105 - 126
The Upbuilding Discourses and the Art of Being Nothing while Being Something No access Pages 127 - 136
Preparing for Communion and the Impossibility of Preparing for Communion No access Pages 137 - 156
Authorial Intentions and Divine Governance No access Pages 157 - 176
Repentance Interrupted by Birds, Lilies, and Little Ludvig No access Pages 177 - 184
