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Author:   Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
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9781032588681

ISBN 10:   1032588683
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   16 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: The Master of Irony and the Mystical Canon Kierkegaard and Mysticism? Introduction Part 1: Kierkegaard and the Mystical Tradition 1. Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kenotic Existence 2. Agency and Contemplation: Neptic Themes in Kierkegaard 3. Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference Between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler 4. Justification and Sanctification: Luther, Arndt, and Kierkegaard’s Inheritance of Theologia Deutsch 5. Purity of Heart and the Pure Love of God: Kierkegaard and Fénelon 6. Modern Devotion: Thomas à Kempis, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Question of the Unio Mystica 7. “Upbuilding Religious Popular-Philosophy”: Martensen’s Eckhart and Kierkegaard’s Defense of Mysticism Part 2: Approaching Mysticism With Kierkegaard 8. The Mystical Horizon: The Temptation of Mysticism and the Transfiguration of Unio Mystica 9. Re-thinking Spirituality with Kierkegaard: the First Schleswig War and the Turn to Imitatio Christi 10. Contemplative Withdrawal and Ethical Life: A Kierkegaardian Critique 11. Muslim Sufism and Kierkegaard’s Mysticism: Returning to the Finite World 12. Kierkegaard and the Three Characteristics of Existence in Buddhism Part 3: Mysticism After Kierkegaard 13. Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro’s Kierkegaardian Approach to the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani 14. Antigone Again? Reading Kierkegaard and Simone Weil 15. Against the Hierarchization of Religion and Ethics: The Opposition of Hasidism and Kierkegaard in Martin Buber 16. The Stranger Within: Kierkegaard, Mysticism, and the Unconscious.

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Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal is an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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