Overview

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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Author:   Lee C. Barrett, III
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781666914924

ISBN 10:   1666914924
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Sigla for Kierkegaard's Works Introduction: Kierkegaard and the Tensive Virtues of Resting in God’s Governance and Striving for Eternal Happiness Chapter One: Kierkegaard’s Contentious Philosophical Background Chapter Two: Kierkegaard’s Tensive Theological Background Chapter Three: Kierkegaard and the Later Grace/Free-Will Debate Chapter Four: Kierkegaard’s Unconventional Practice of Theology Chapter Five: Active Leaping and Gracious Receiving in Philosophical Fragments Chapter Six: Concluding Unscientific Postscript and the Truth and Untruth of Subjectivity Chapter Seven: The Upbuilding Discourses and the Art of Being Nothing while Being Something Chapter Eight: Preparing for Communion and the Impossibility of Preparing for Communion Chapter Nine: Authorial Intentions and Divine Governance Chapter Ten: Repentance Interrupted by Birds, Lilies, and Little Ludvig Conclusion: The Conceptual Antinomy Becomes a Passional Antinomy Bibliography About the Author

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One of our most trustworthy guides into Søren Kierkegaard offers here a thick description of the Dane’s struggle with the tensive valorization of divine and human agency. Exhibited in the process is Kierkegaard’s rhetorical style of doing theology that privileges practical reason over theoretic reason while emphasizing the necessary involvement of certain forms of passion, disposition, and virtue within religious practice. Readers will be grateful for this refreshing portrayal of Kierkegaard as theologian. -- Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College If you understand how Kierkegaard navigates the problem of grace and freedom, there is a sense in which you understand his approach to Christian writing as such. On this subject, there is no better guide than Lee Barrett. This book situates Kierkegaard’s treatment of the will against the backdrop of previous debates and, even more importantly, models how to read him well. -- Carl S. Hughes, Texas Lutheran University

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Lee C. Barrett is the Henry and Mary Stager Chair in Theology and professor of systematic theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

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